The efforts of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) to popularise cage fish farming technology has won recognition with a cage fish farmer associated with the institute bagging the ‘Thozhil Shreshta’ award instituted by the State Labour department.
Twenty-eight-year-old P.M. Dinil Prasad from Kannur, who won the award for his performance in the fisheries sector, has been undertaking cage fish farming under the guidance of the CMFRI. A communication from the CMFRI claimed he had been with the Indian Army before taking up cage farming.
When the CMFRI introduced a ₹15-crore project funded by the National Fisheries Development Board to set up 500 cage farming units in Kerala in 2018, Mr. Prasad was the first to receive a unit under the project and launched farming activities in the Anjarakandi river in Kannur.
