Department of Fisheries

The main objective of the Department is to increase the fish production in the state and emuliorate socio-economic conditions of the fishermen.It provides Infrastructural facilities, deals with the Registration of Fishing vessels, Fishing canoes/Fishing crafts, Fishing nets etc. The Directorate also implements various developmental as well as welfare schemes for the upliftment of the fishermen and the fishing industry. The Directorate has Fisheries extension wing, consisting of Fisheries Officers and Fisheries Surveyors attached to the community development Blocks of Tiswadi, Bardez, Salcete, Murmugao, Ponda, Pernem and Canacona. The Directorate is running a Fishermen Training Centre and one Estuarine Fish Farm at Ela Dhauji, Old Goa, Fresh Water Fish Farm at Anjunem, Sub-Office at Colva, and a Pilot Prawn Hatchery at Benaulim operated under Brackish Water Fish Farmers Development Agency Goa.