Objectives
- To conduct basic, strategic and applied research on freshwater fish diseases, their diagnosis & control.
- To enhance aquaculture productivity through application of environment friendly microorganisms.
- To provide training and consultancy service on fish health management in aquaculture.
Important Activities of the Division
- Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Fisheries and Aquaculture system and “One Health” studies.
- Assessment of fish health status, disease prevalence and economic loss due to disease in different freshwater fish farms.
- Cataloguing of various drugs , chemicals, antibiotics, probiotics, microbial preparations used by farmers in freshwater aquaculture.
- Nanotechnology in aquaculture.
- Monitoring national fish disease outbreaks and serological screening of diseases.
- Development of vaccine using molecular techniques.
- Molecular characterization of important bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi.
- Application of probiotics in aquaculture.
- Immunity and immunomodulation in fish.
- Standardization of cell culture of Carps.
- Repository of pathogenic bacteria and immuno diagnostic reagents.
- Isolation and characterization of bacteria associated with nutrient cycles and bioremediation.
- Biodiversity and identification of microorganisms important to aquaculture.
- HRD, training and awareness programmes for fish farmers/ entrepreneurs on different aspect of fish health management and prudent use of drugs and chemicals in.