ICAR-CIBA signed an MoU with HIET (Deemed to be University), Chennai, on 24th July 2025, to promote collaborative research and explore new avenues to improve the Advanced aquaculture technologies and career research and education opportunities . The MoU was signed by Dr. Muthukumar Subramanian, Registrar of HIET, and Dr. Kuldeep K. Lal, Director of ICAR-CIBA. Dr.…
A team of researchers from the Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA), Chennai, have successfully sequenced the genome of the goldlined seabream, Rhabdosargus sarba, known locally as Matti Vaayan in Tamil. It is one of the commonly preferred food fishes with high domestic market demand in India. Being a euryhaline species, goldlined seabream has a…
ICAR- Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture Chennai celebrated the National Fish Farmers Day on 10th July 2025 in which about 60 fish farmers from Kottaikadu and Kolathur villages of Chengalpattu district of Tamil Nadu participated. In this event, CIBA Scientists interacted with fish farmers and fishers on the importance of National Fish farmers Day and…
ICAR-CIBA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with M/s. V. K. Aqua Feeds, Andhra Pradesh on 3rd July 2025 for the technology transfer of ‘CIBA EHP Cura Gro plus’– technology. This phytobiotic-based product is technically designed to control and treat Ecytonucleospora hepatopenaei (EHP), a microsporidian that causes huge production losses in shrimp farming. EHP has…
ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA) has developed a new aquaculture model- Seaweed-shrimp integrated farming system- aiming to enhance the productivity shrimp aquaculture systems. The integrated system can yield a productivity of 8 tons/ha in around 110 days with an average body weight of 23g with an impressive survival rate of over 98%. Additionally, about…