Central
Institute of Fisheries Education Mumbai
Centre of
Advanced Faculty Training in Fisheries Science
Training
Programme on
RESEARCH
STRATEGIES FOR MITIGATION AND IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON FISHERIES
15
November – 5 December 2012
Eligibility
Scientists,
Assistant Professors or equivalent and above working in ICAR Institutes, SAUs,
CAUs, SVUs and KVKs having 2 years experience.
The
participants must have a master's degree in Aquaculture/ Fish and Fisheries/
Veterinary sciences/ Life sciences and related disciplines.
Selection and
confirmation of participants
The
total number of participants will be 25. A list of candidates will be prepared
as per the criteria developed for the course and will be displayed in the CIFE
website and intimation will be sent to the individual selected participants by 14 October 2012.
IMPORTANT DATES
Last
date for receipt of nomination: 10th
October 2012
Intimation
of selection: 14th October 2012
Last
date for receipt of confirmation from Participants: 21st October 2012
Overview of the
CAFT program
Climate
change is projected to impact broadly across ecosystems, societies and
economics, increasing pressure on all livelihoods and food supplies.
Climate
change, in particular, rising temperatures, can have both direct and indirect
effects on global fish production. With increased global temperature, the
spatial distribution of fish stocks might change due to the migration of fishes
from one region to another in search of suitable conditions.
Climate
change has been implicated in mass mortalities of many aquatic species,
including plants, fish, corals, and mammals (Harvell et al., 1999; Battin et
al., 2007). Though climate change effect on aquaculture is highly hypothetical,
but it can not be overlooked.
Being
a poikilotherm in nature, fish are very sensitive to any change in ecosystem.
Now it has become necessary to develop preparedness among the scientific
fraternity and thus, developing first hand information in simulation model of
micro-environment projecting the climate change effect will be very much
useful.
This
will not only indicate an understanding of this phenomenon but also helps in
making suitable mitigating strategy to combat the adverse effect on
aquaculture. The basic methodology that we have standardised in our lab will be
a good exposure to the academicians, teachers and researchers for generating
data in this line before we draw any conclusion for the climate change effect.
In
this context, it is proposed to organize a CAFT training entitled “Research
strategies for mitigation and impact of climate change on fisheries” at CIFE,
Mumbai to share the knowledge on the latest developments in mitigation
strategies and bring awareness among Scientist/Teachers of Research
Organizations, State Agricultural Universities/ Veterinary Universities and
ICAR Institutions.
About CIFE
CIFE,
a premier institution under ICAR, caters high quality fisheries research and
education for India and Afro-Asian countries.
CIFE
offers master of fishery science and doctoral programs in eleven disciplines.
The Fish Nutrition, Biochemistry, and Physiology division is engaged in
advanced research with a focus on radioecology, climate change, nano-delivery
system, nutraceuticals, nutrigenomics, antinutritional factors amelioration,
stress physiology and mitigations, reproductive physiology. The division offers
master and doctoral programs in fish nutrition and feed technology and fish
physiology and biochemistry.
Facilities
available
State-of-art
laboratories with equipments like HPLC; ELISA Reader; Blood Auto Analyser; Gel
Doc; Thermo cycler; Electroporator; Electrophoresis apparatus; Ultra
Centrifuge; DNA/ RNA Concentrator; GC-MS; Socs- Plus; S e m i - a u t o m a t i c B o m b
- c a l o r i m e t e r ;
Spheronizer and Fiber- tron etc.
Salient Course
Contents
1.
Climate change and its impact in aquaculture including fish health and
reproduction
2.
Metabolism of fish during extreme climatic conditions
3.
Role of hypoxia inducible factors with respect to climate change and heat shock
proteins on adaptations of fish
4.
Multiple stressors, their interaction and effect on fish homeostasis.
5.
Thermal tolerance study of fish and shellfish
6.
Nutraceuticals and stress mitigation strategies
7.
Nano-size delivery of nutraceuticals for stress mitigation
8.
Hands on training on gene expression, CTmax, Ctmin determination, antioxidant
from plant extracts for stress mitigation.
Travel, boarding
and lodging
The
participants are allowed to travel by their entitled class (not above II AC
train fare) or by state bus. Actual TA will be reimbursed on production of a
certificate and tickets by the participants. Free boarding and lodging will be
provided only to the participants within the budgetary provisions as per ICAR
norms. No accompanying persons will be allowed.
How to reach
Mumbai and CIFE
Mumbai
is well connected from all major cities of India by road, rail and air. The
institute is located in Andheri (W), about 25 km from dadar railway station.
The weather is pleasant during November with temperature ranging from 18-24ºC.
The trainees are requested to carry normal clothes.
Applications can
be downloaded from the link:
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