Pragativadi reports on this. Following are some excerpts.

… fisheries and animal resources development minister Golakh Nayak said …, the state would be in a position to export marine products in a large scale to foreign countries.

… he said that the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) will provide the technological assistance to the state government.

The technology would be used by way of implanting satellite radio receivers and Internet facilities in fishing boats and installing electronic display boards at fishing harbours for constant monitoring of vessel movement and fish counting.

The INCOIS is being provided with necessary support by the Space Application Centre, National Remote Sensing Agency, ISRO’s Regional Remote Sensing Service Centre (RSSC) and the Central Fishery Research Institute.

The technology would substantially reduce the search time and human effort in high seas by almost 70 percent, Nayak pointed out.

He said that with the ICT know-how, the marine fishery would use satellite images to identify the prospective areas of fish aggregation.

Later, the information would be given in local language of the respective area thrice a week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays during the fishing season.

At the same time, the information would be communicated to about 225 nodes along the entire coastline through telephone and fax, the minister informed.

It may be mentioned here that the maximum sustainable yield of marine fish in the state stands at 1.61 lakh tonne per annum.

Giving further plan details, the minister said that 20 electronic display boards would be set up at fishing harbours in the first phase for which the state government would bear 20 percent of the cost.

This apart, 10 Potential Fishing Zone (PFZ) Boards would be installed while the ICT kiosks in these centres would be set up by the United Nation’s Development Programme (UNDP), Nayak said.

It may be mentioned here that there are two PFZ boards installed at Nuagolabandha ICT Centre in Ganjam district and Balaramgadi ICT centre in Balasore district.