The Chhattisgarh Fisheries Department has developed as many as 28 ‘Chinese style hatcheries’ to provide a major push to fish production in the State.
The Chinese hatchery system is considered to be most suitable for the production of quality fish seeds, they stated.Apart from the Chinese style hatcheries owned by the Fisheries Department, the State Co-operative Fisheries Federation has nine and the private fish seeds production units have 25 Chinese style hatcheries for fish seeds production, officials informed.
In all, the State has 62 Chinese style hatcheries, 57 fish seeds production farm and as many as 721 reservoirs for fish seeds production.
After acquiring the status of a self-reliant state in producing electricity, Chhattisgarh has now become independent in terms of producing fish seeds. Fisheries Department officials here stated that the State needs 96.92 crore standard fry seeds for fish farming in all water reservoirs, while it successfully recorded production of 119 crore standard fry fish seeds during 2013–14.
Besides, the Department has 35 fish seeds farm, the Federation has one and the private producers have 21 seeds farms.Similarly, the Department has 589 reservoirs while the Federation and private producers has 127 reservoirs for producing fish seeds.
It is an outcome of various schemes launched by the State government that the fish seeds production has significantly increased in last 13 years.During 2012-13, the State managed to produce 104.37 Crore standard fry fish seeds against the production of 28.68 Crore fish seeds in 2000 – 01.
As per the reports, the State produced 33.29 crore fish seeds in 2001 – 02, 32.33 crore fish seeds in 2002 – 03, 36.78 crore fish seeds in 2003 – 04, 46.13 crore fish seeds in 2004 – 05, 50.55 crore fish seeds in 2005 – 06, 59.17 crore fish seeds in 2006 – 07, 64.96 crore fish seeds in 2007 – 08, 67.50 crore fish seeds in 2008 – 09, 76.28 crore fish seeds in 2009 – 10, 83.96 crore fish seeds in 2010 – 11 and 90.96 crore fish seeds in 2011 – 12.