{"id":30069,"date":"2025-02-12T07:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30069"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:29:17","slug":"fishery-survey-of-india-fsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fishery-survey-of-india-fsi\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishery Survey of India (FSI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Fishery Survey of India Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A deep-sea fishing expedition by the Fishery Survey of India (FSI) recently revealed several highly productive, potentially untouched fishing grounds in the Arabian Sea.<\/p>\n<h2>About Fishery Survey of India (FSI)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The FSI, under the <strong>Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying<\/strong>, is the <strong>nodal fishery institute in India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Primary Responsibility: Survey and assessment of fishery resources in the Indian exclusive economic zone (EEZ)and adjoining areas<\/strong> for their optimum utilization and sustainable development.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters: Mumbai, <\/strong>Maharashtra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fishery Survey of India History<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>established <\/strong>in the year <strong>1946 as Deep Sea Fishing Station<\/strong> with the objective of augmenting food supply through the <strong>development of deep-sea fishing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It graduated to the <strong>status of a survey institute in the year 1974 under <\/strong>the name <strong>Exploratory Fisheries Project, <\/strong>with bases known as Offshore Fishing Stations in all the maritime states.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The objectives of exploratory fishing and charting of fishing grounds, training of fishing operatives, and testing commercial possibilities of deep-sea fishing were assigned to it.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1983<\/strong> it was reorganized and <strong>upgraded as a national institute, the FSI.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>recognised as a Science &amp; Technology Institute<\/strong> in the year 1988.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fishery Survey of India FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is the headquarter of Fishery Survey of India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Mumbai, Maharashtra<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Who is the father of modern fisheries in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. K H Alikunhi is considered as the father of modern fisheries in India,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which is the largest fishery in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Andhra Pradesh is the largest fish producer in the country followed by West Bengal and Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/environment\/new-fishing-grounds-in-arabian-sea-discovered-3400646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fishery Survey of India, under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying, is the nodal fishery institute in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}