The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) will use satellite data to improve the fortunes of the Indian marine fisheries sector.
CMFRI will focus on areas of fish abundance (fishing grounds and critical habitats) to provide advisories to fishermen about the nature of ocean; work to understand in-advance ocean phenomena such as mud bank and changes in sea-surface temperature and predict the changes occurring in the ocean ecosystem owing to climate change.
As part of utilising global expertise to develop required framework for the purpose, CMFRI has forged a linkage with the SAFARI (Societal Applications in Fisheries and Aquaculture using Remote Sensing Imagery), an international project developed under the umbrella of Group on Earth Observation (GEO), currently ‘Oceans and Society: Blue Planet’ initiative of the United Nations. According to a press release, CMFRI will host the second international symposium of SAFARI here on January 15 and 17, 2018.
Eminent scientists working on global ocean satellite data, technocrats, oceanographers and marine experts from across the world will converge at the symposium to prepare a roadmap to utilise satellite data for the development of the marine fisheries in India.
The symposium ‘Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Analysis and Fisheries’ will find ways and means to apply the remote sensing techniques in areas such as aquaculture, harvest fisheries, fisheries management, fishery environment and ecology, fresh water, estuarine and marine fisheries and socio-economics.
Participants and contributors are requested to submit their applications and abstracts online at the website www.safari2.org.in on or before October 31.
