The State authorities expects to fee 5 trendy, deep-sea fishing vessels subsequent month as half of its effort to modernise marine fisheries and defend the livelihood of the fishing communities.
Inaugurating the ‘Theerasadasu’ programme deliberate throughout 47 coastal constituencies right here on Sunday, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan mentioned the vessels, every costing as much as ₹1.5 crore, will assist conventional fishermen to reinforce their incomes.
The vessels shall be fuelled by petrol and LPG, an announcement mentioned. As half of experimenting with new applied sciences within the fisheries sector, sea cage farming shall be tried out with technical help from Norway, he mentioned.
So far, 2,016 homes have been accomplished. Three hundred and ninety flats even have been accomplished and handed over, he mentioned.
As half of the modernisation programmes, the federal government additionally intends to modernise 51 fish markets at a price of ₹138 crore, Mr. Vijayan mentioned.
Minister for Fisheries Saji Cheriyan, who presided over the perform held on the authorities UP School, Pozhiyoor, mentioned the ‘Theerasadasu’ interplay programme shall be a giant success in addressing the issues of the fishing neighborhood.
Ministers V. Sivankutty, Antony Raju and G. R. Anil, MLAs Ok. Ansalan and V. Joy, Principal Secretary (Fisheries) Ok. S. Srinivas, Fisheries director Adeela Abdulla, District Collector Geromic George attended the occasion.
