"Harnessing the Science of Fisheries for Food, Nutrition and Livelihood"
A magnificent off campus facility of Dr. MGR. Fisheries College and Research Institute has been unfurled over five acres surrounded by the Madhavaram lake with huge palm trees rolled out with green carpet blurring out with advanced fish farming facilities. The picturesque view of the facility has been technically uplifted with the lined ponds for fish rearing with aerators. The research facility aim to provide the highest standard of facilities and consultancy services in an ever-changing commercial, academic and regulatory environment.
The modern facilities in the centre has been built to ensure that our staff, researchers and students have the best technological support and environment for their studies. Our facilities are available to support and encourage collaboration and innovation across our research programmes at the National and International level.
The major exquisite research facilities in our campus covering the complete range of its research activities. This includes:
We strive to operate to the highest possible standards with our services. We have excellent experimental facilities, workshops and field equipment looked after by our dedicated technicians. Our research facilities are monitored and inspected by the University annually. We undertake evaluation and regulatory studies in compliance with Standard Management Practices (SMPs).
We have outstanding Nursery Raceway Complex fitted with high-capacity blowers for the nursery rearing of commercially important finfishes. The complex has excellent 50 tonnes capacity raceways driven railed with sumps and filtration equipment, and both research and teaching activities are supported by in-house technical staff, including dedicated feed management, water quality management, sludge management with alliance to the recommended Standard Management Practices.
We have invested heavily in Recirculatory Aquaculture Research Facility (RAS) research infrastructure, including drum filter with a flow rate of 800 Litres/min, Moving Bed Biofilm Bioreactor Media, UV filter with 1000l/min flow rate and air oxy tube aeration by centrifugal pumps, which provides an outstanding facility for developmental research and teaching on Recirculatory Aquaculture Systems coupled with the wider Faculties expertise in Aquaculture, we provide an excellent environment for developing innovative and cross-cutting research programmes.
This aquaponics experimental system employs two parabolic raceways at the size of 30 m3 tonnes capacity each and ten lined plant grow beds at the size of 14.4 m2. This system was placed under transparent rainproof sheet and shade net. Plant beds were filled with quartz silica sand about 0.2m depth. This aquaponics system were well constructed with automatic timer system for controlling the water flow rate and raceways were provided with an air compressor and air stones to supply air for fish growth.
This is one of the unique facilities for developing Biofloc for the eco feed production of commercially important species by Paddle wheel raceway tanks and Photobioreactors. The Paddle wheel raceway ponds is the most productive open air system and it is the most economical system. An airlift tubular photobioreactor is also used for producing biofloc. Air lift system induces circulation of fluid through the continuous tubular loop where main photosynthesis reaction occurs. The transparent Borosilicate glass continuous loop is designed to ensure maximum photon capture.
A twenty lined ponds of varying sizes were constructed for the nursery and grow out culture of finfishes and shellfishes. The central drainage facility has been acquainted with few ponds and integrated with advanced aeration for the high stock culture. These ponds were very much deployed for the evaluation of autotrophic and heterotrophic mode of nitrification in line with the advanced technologies for research and technology dissemination.
Our laboratory has equipped with essential facilities to conduct pioneering and commercially relevant research in partnership with leading aquaculture companies. We have three special-purpose laboratories specifically for research projects
We have excellent experimental facilities and field equipment looked after by our dedicated technicians.
Azolla anabaena is produced for research and commercial sale with our customized Azolla production model using HDPE sheet. Harvested Azolla are being used for the fish meal replacement studies in the feeds of commercially important fishes. The use of bioweed in terms of nutritional, physiological, haematological and immunological performance of the finfishes were explored from these units.
Pilot scale research works in testing the industrial products as well as to conduct the challenge study FRP tanks, plastic crates and aquarium glass tanks connected to the RAS systems are carried out.
We encourage aquaculture startups, innovative farmers and industrial stakeholders to use our Farm Facility in our “Incubation Hub” ideology.
Biofloc Production unit
Delegates Visit
Farmers Training
Fish Culture
Fish Harvest
Fish Seed Stocking
GIFT Tilapia Culture
Insitu and Exsitu Fermenter
Dr.Ravaneswaran
Professor & Officer-In-Charge
Advanced Research Farm Facility (ARFF),
Dr.MGR.Fisheries College and Research Institute
Tamil Nadu Dr. J. Jayalalithaa Fisheries University,
Chennai -600051.
