Central Institute of Fisheries Nautical and Engineering Training, Kochi ::[CIFNET]

Indian marine fisheries has a long history of improvement from its resource fisheries during the pre 1950’s to undeniable modernized mechanical exercises of right now.
The feature of this advancement movement in the marine area was automation and mechanization of the conventional specialties during the early long stretches of free India.
With the expanding expense in the progressive long term Plans, numerous improvements occurred in Indian marine fisheries area and the approach of catch has additionally gone through ocean change throughout the years with the presentation of modernized artworks, gears, fish locaters and other current logical supplies.
These improved new specialties required a by and large unique sort of specialized skill as activities of motor/engine/winches are included and there was additionally the requirement for related spotlight on professional preparing to all classes of group ready.
Meanwhile the Merchant Shipping Act had additionally specified legal prerequisite of capable guaranteed hands for monitoring maritime fishing vessels.
The Government of India, in 1959, comprised a Committee on Fisheries Education for evaluating the labor necessities of the fisheries area and to recommend measures for working up prepared labor for advancing fishery formative exercises.
CIFNET (prior known as Central Institute of Fisheries Operatives), was in this manner set up in 1963 on the proposal of previously mentioned Committee to meet the legal monitoring prerequisites of remote ocean fishing vessels as set down in the Merchant Shipping Act (1958) and gifted staff needed by the supporting shore establishments.
The Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act 1987 specified that all fishing vessels with mechanical drive are needed to be monitored by properly ensured faculty, so the broadening of fishing and advancement of remote ocean fisheries could be successfully executed with satisfactory prepared labor able to do adequately taking CAREof the sort and class of vessels.
The name of the establishment was later redesigned steady with its capacities as ‘Focal Institute of Fisheries Nautical and Engineering Training’ (CIFNET).
In this way, two units of the Institute were set up at Chennai in 1968 and at Visakhapatnam in 1981 for meeting the extra prerequisite of labor required by the development of the fishing armada.