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OTHER DEPARTMENTS
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FISHERIES DEPARTMENT
Organisation.
A Superintendent of Fisheries has his headquarters at Kolhapur with the opening of a sub-office in 1951. This office is entrusted with the supervision of fisheries in Sangli, Satara and Kolhapur districts. The Superintendent works directly under the Director of Fisheries., Maharashtra State, Bombay. He is assisted in his work by an Assistant Superintendent with other ministerial staff.
The duties of the Superintendent of Fisheries are as under: -
(i) Granting lease of fishing rights of portions of rivers, tanks and ponds in the district.
(ii) Conducting survey of new sheets of water to assess their suitability for pisciculture.
(iii) Stocking of tanks and reservoirs with suitable varieties of fishes.
(iv) Collection of local fry and its nurture in nursery tanks.
(v) Supervision of the tanks.
(vi) Formation and supervision of the fisheries co-operative societies, and devise ways and means to improve the socio-economic conditions of fishermen.
(vii) To investigate the applications from fishermen for loan for fishery works and subsidies on fishing twine.
(viii) To watch and effect loan recoveries and credit the money to the treasury.
(ix) To encourage the fishermen to take advantage of the guidance afforded by the department.
(x) To collect statistics of fish and other data pertaining to fisheries and fishermen of the district.
(xi) To supervise the work of development of fisheries in the districts of Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara.
(xii) To allot refrigerated cabinets to local bodies or cooperative societies.
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