“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
It is an ancient proverb that emphasizes the importance of imparting necessary skills to the mankind to lead a sustainable living. IT enabled tools and techniques are revolutionizing the digital era and galloping to open up AI bots, the humanoids. Equally, Biotechnology enabled genetic modifications can jump start to evolve newer species and novel products in fisheries and aquaculture sectors. In the line of these objectives, the ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR) was established during the 6th five-year plan. ICAR-NBFGR started functioning as an independent institute in December 1983 at Prayagraj, which later shifted to Lucknow in 1999. The institute is recognized and designated by the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), Government of India, as the nodal repository agency, under section 39 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 of India. Further, the NBFGR was ranked 18th among all ICAR institutes during 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 (combined) and emerged as a Centre of Excellence for research on AqGR. Aquatic genetic resources are important for livelihood generation, ecosystem services, aquaculture diversification, products of high commercial value, etc. Over the years, the institute significantly contributed for the conservation of aquatic genetic resources for intellectual property protection and sustainable utilization with planned conservation of 3246 fish species belonging to 256 families and 57 orders. .....
Read More...