Kochi, Oct 11 (PTI) To meet the country’s rapidly growing seafood demand, mariculture production in India needs to increase to 25 lakh tonnes by 2047 from the current 1.5 lakh tonnes, CMFRI Director Grinson George said on Saturday.

Mariculture is the next big thing in India’s marine fisheries sector, he added.

Various technologies such as cage culture and Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) could be utilised to increase marine fish production, he said in a statement issued by Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI).

He was speaking after inaugurating a training programme for fish farmers at CMFRI, marking the nationwide launch of the central government’s Pradhan Mantri Dhan Dhanya Krishi Yojana (PMDDKY), the release said.

He further said that India currently produce

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