OTHER DEPARTMENTS

FISHERIES DEPARTMENT

Organisation.

Before the reorganisation of States, the Assistant Fishery Development Officer, Nagpur, was in charge of the fisheries activities in the Vidarbha region as also three more districts of the then Madhya Pradesh. After 1956, the same post was redesignated as the Superintendent of Fisheries. Accordingly, one Superintendent of Fisheries was placed in charge of Bhandara district and the jurisdiction over the rest of the districts of the Vidarbha region was entrusted to another Superintendent of Fisheries, with headquarters at Nagpur. Both these Superintendents were responsible to the Director of Fisheries, Maharashtra State, Bombay.

In 1958, one additional post of Superintendent of Fisheries was created for the Chanda district with jurisdiction over Chanda and Yeotmal districts. Subsequently in 1967, one Assistant Superintendent of Fisheries was appointed and work in Yeotmal district was transferred to him. He works under the direct supervision of the Superintendent of Fisheries, Nagpur.

The Assistant Director of Fisheries is the planning, supervising and coordinating officer for all the activities of the department in the Vidarbha region.

Duties.

The duties of the Superintendent of fisheries are as follows:—

(1) To carry out survey of new sheets of water to judge their suitability for pisciculture.

(2) To stock the ponds and tanks with different varieties of fish.

(3) To construct nurseries and to nurture fry in them.

(4) To form and supervise the fisheries co-operative societies and to devise ways and means to improve the socio-economic conditions of fishermen.

(5) To investigate applications from fishermen for loan and subsidy from Government.

(6) To effect loan recoveries.

(7) To associate and encourage fishermen to take advantage of various schemes undertaken by the department.

(8) To collect information pertaining to fish and other data relating to fisheries of the district.

(9) To give technical guidance to the deep tank fishing operations conducted by the fisheries co-operative societies.

(10) To supervise the working of ice and cold storage plant, and

(11) To supervise in general the work of development of fisheries in areas under his jurisdiction.

Co-Operative Societies.

The fishermen of this district have formed 9 co-operative societies with a total membership of 428 and a share capital of Rs. 39,165. The Government provides financial assistance to societies by way of subsidy on purchase of fishery requisites, loan for the construction of rearing and nursery tanks, etc.

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