The ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) has developed a mobile app, ‘MARLIN@CMFRI’, to encourage citizen science initiatives in marine fisheries research.

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The ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) has developed a mobile app, ‘MARLIN@CMFRI’, to encourage citizen science initiatives in marine fisheries research. The app is a gateway for comprehensive media sharing and is aimed to transform marine fishery research, species identification, and assessment efforts within India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). ‘Marlin@CMFRI’ helps the public to upload photos of marine fish species encountered in the vast expanse of the Indian EEZ, leading to the development of a rich visual repository of marine fishery resources. The app encourages users to provide species details ensuring that the database is scientifically enriched, facilitating accurate species identification.


      The app was developed under a project led by Eldho Varghese at the Fishery Resources Assessment, Economics and Extension division of CMFRI.

     

     

 

     


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