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FISHERIES DEPARTMENT.
FISHERIES.
Organisation.
A SUPERINTENDENT OF FISHERIES WAS APPOINTED WITH
HEAD- QUARTERS AT KOLHAPUR with the opening of a sub-office there in
1951. This officer is entrusted with the supervision of fisheries in
North Satara, South Satara and Sholapur districts also and he works
directly under the Director of Fisheries, Maharashtra State, Bombay.
One Assistant Superintendent, a clerk-cum-typist and a peon
are attached to his office. For implementation of a scheme to
undertake deep tank fishing operations with special type of nets in
the Radhanagari lake additional staff consisting of one Assistant
Superintendent and his subordinates is stationed at Radhanagari and
works directly under the supervision of the Superintendent of
Fisheries, Kolhapur.
The duties of the Superintendent of Fisheries are as
under:-
(i) To lease out fishing rights of portions
of the rivers, tanks and ponds in the district.
(ii) Survey of new sheets of water to assess
their suitability for pisciculture.
(iii) Stocking of tanks and ponds with
suitable varieties of fish every year.
(iv) Collection of local fry and its nurture
in nursery tanks.
(v) Supervision of the tanks.
(vi) Formation and supervision of the
fisheries co-operative societies and to devise ways and means to
improve the socio-economic condition of fishermen.
(vii) To investigate applications from
fishermen for loan from Government.
(viii) To watch and effect loan recoveries
and credit the money to treasury.
(ix) To encourage fishermen to take advantage
of the different schemes of the department.
(x) To collect statistics of fish and other
data pertaining to fisheries and fishermen of the district.
(xi) To serve as member and to attend the
meeting of the District Development Boards and their respective
subcommittees.
(xii) To supervise deep tank fishing
operations.
(xiii) To supervise the work of development
of fisheries in Kolhapur, Sholapur, North and South Satara
districts.
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