Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA), Bhubaneswar Principal Scientist Dr BC Mohapatra has been conferred with the life Time Achievement Award by the Fisheries Department of Assam on the National Fish Farmers Day held in Guwahation Sunday.
Dr Mohapatra was awarded for his dedicated services towards development of aquaculture in Assam as well as North-East Region States the country through introduction of FRP hatcheries for quality fish seed production and training programmes in the sector.
Notably, the FRP carp hatchery technology was developed by Dr Mohapatra and his team under the All India Coordinated Research Project on Plasticulture Engineering and Technology operating at the CIFA, Bhubaneswar. The technology was released to the nation and was also commercialized in 2006. The technology has been adopted by 26 States of the country.
Dr Mohapatra has received over 20 awards in his educational and service careers. Besides, he has written 10 books and over 100 research papers in different national and international journals. He has commercialised several technologies, including the Portable FRP Carp Hatchery Technology for production of 1.0-1.2 million fish seed (spawn) per operation.