Overview

• At Bhubaneswar’s ICAR-CIFA event, Union minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh inaugurated 17 new PMMSY clusters, raising the national total to 34.
• The ministry unveiled 70 fisheries projects worth Rs 105 crore across 11 states to strengthen infrastructure and value chains under the Blue Revolution.
• Sikkim, declared India’s first Organic Fish Cluster, reached 953 MT of fish output this year and now involves over 2,000 families in aquaculture.
• Sikkim’s fisheries department adopted modern technologies—recirculating aquaculture systems, biofloc tanks and digital licensing—to boost production and market access.
• Assam inaugurated its first Aqua Tech Park in Sonapur to showcase aquaponics, recirculatory systems and insect-based feeds for state-level self-reliance.