• To promote Inland Fishery, the Department has 108 fish farms out of which 19 are breeding farms (with hatcheries). By the end of 2002-03, 60 farms were under Departmental management, 25 had been leased out and 4 had been transferred to other Departments while 19 farms needed restoration.
  
• The total demand of fish seed in the State is approximately 50 crores. The fish seed demand is met from sources like Departmental hatcheries, OPDC hatcheries, private hatcheries and traders. The performance of fry production during 2002-03 is as under.

There is substantial gap in seed production between fish seed demand and production. In order to bridge the gap, stress has been given in private sector. During 2002-03, 27 fish seed hatcheries have been formed in private sector in 12 districts.

• There is one Fish Farmer’s Development Agency (FFDA) in each of the 30 districts of the State. In the State, Fresh Water Pisciculture is being promoted through FFDA. These agencies provide technical, financial and extension assistance to the fish farmers since inception till 2002-03, an area of 53,787 hectares has been brought under the fold of scientific management.
  
  During 2002-03, 2,097 Pisciculturists have been benefited through subsidized schemes. Training has been imparted to 305 Pisciculturists and 2,967 tanks have been developed covering an area of 1065.32 hectares under FFDA programme. The FFDAs have also collected Rs. 9.38 lakhs from the beneficiaries towards user charges.

Poly-culture and Integrated farming:

The FFDAs have initiated Polyculture and integrated fish farming through NABARD approved Schemes. Responses of the farmers are quite encouraging. So, this type of farming has been initiated to generate additional income in an effective manner. Success story on poly culture & integrated fish farming is described as under:

Shri Surya Narayan Das of village – Mali Chanchara in Belaguntha Block of Ganjam District is one such entrepreneur being encouraged by the technical officers of FFDA, Ganjam. He started “Integrated Pisciculture” in the name of M/s Jaganath Agro & Aqua Pvt. Ltd. availing a bank loan of Rs. 1.23 crores under KSK Scheme from Oriental Bank of Commerce and since then he has never looked back. Sri Das has developed a total area of 140 acres of land out of which Pisciculture area is 60 acres. The rest area has been utilized for Agriculture and Horticulture.

During the year 2002-03, Sri Das has stocked 1.20 lakh of fingerlings and produced 40.00 MT of fish from his Project. Besides above he has planted 800 Mango trees, 1000 lemon trees and also rearing 100 ducks, 30 poultry birds. At present he is earning Rs. 12.25 lakhs from Pisciculture, Rs. 0.91 lakhs from paddy and Rs. 2.80 lakhs from horticulture per annum. Being inspired in his success, more projects are coming up in Ganjam and other neighbouring Districts.

• The spawn and fry production during 2002-03 is as follows:

Category Department OPDC FISHFED Private Total
Spawn(in crores) 51.19 41.78 1.85 42.59 137.41
Fry(in Crores) 9.98 10.96 0.45 22.68 44.07

As against the target of an income of Rs. 1.11 crore from sale of seed and fish, the earning during 2002-03 has been Rs.1.06 crores.

• Fish Culture: - In addition to spawn and fry production, short duration fish culture programme was taken up during 2002-03 in the Departmental fish farms with an annual target of 14,953 Kg. of fish production. The achievement under this programme has been 5147.35 Kg.
• Fresh Water Capture Fisheries: - In the State, there are 1,442 reservoirs comprising 1,97,000 hectares suitable water spread area. During 9th Five year Plan, 5 reservoirs have been covered under World Bank assistance during 2002-03. A massive reservoir development programme has been chalked out in 8 KBK districts under Revised Long Term Action Plan Scheme to develop 80 reservoirs comprising 33,444 hectares. These have been developed at a cost of Rs. 114.34 lakhs. Under this scheme, priorities have been laid on development of captive nurseries, fish landing platforms, training and exposure visits. The scheme also envisages 10% savings on each component as beneficiary share for development of a corpus fund called “Reservoir Development Fund”. Integrated approach has been infused into the scheme by introducing Duckery into the reservoir fishing to improve the financial standard of the beneficiaries through additional income.

(DUCKERY BEING PROMOTED UNDER RLTAP  RESERVOIR FISHERY PROGRAMME)