ICAR-CIPHET, Ludhiana gives licensing on “Live Fish Carrier System”

Ludhiana, April 16, 2019: The technology of "Live Fish Carrier System and method of transportation of live fish therein" has been signed by Dr.R.K.Singh, Director (Act.), ICAR-Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET), Ludhiana and Shri Shivam Sharma, S/o Shri Rajkumar Sharma, Proprietor, M/s E-Magic Electric, Nangla Fateh Khan, PO- Patara, Jalandhar (Punjab) today at ICAR-CIPHET, Ludhiana. The inventors of the technology are Dr.Armaan U.Muzaddadi, PI presently working as Principal Scientist and Dr. S.K. Nanda, Co-PI former HOD and Principal Scientist of Food Grains & Oilseed Processing Division of CIPHET. Dr.Ranjeet Singh, Sr. Scientist & I/C ITMU coordinated this activity. On this occasion Pr. Scientists Dr. Sandeep Mann, Dr. Mridula D. and Dr. D.N. Yadav were also present. This technology is for carrying different types of fish in live condition from farm to the market and was developed with financial assistance from National Fisheries Development Board, Hyderabad. This technology is highly potential to increase fish farmers' income by two or three folds. In brief, Live fish carrier system (LFCS) is a electric tri-cycle based live fish transportation system for short and medium distance (about 80 km) transportation of fish including the table carps (rohu, catla, mrigal, common carp, grass carp, silver carp, bighead carp) in live condition from one place to another for marketing, rearing, ornamental displaying and breeding purposes. It is devised with water filtration, aeration and cooling system providing good quality water to reduce fish mortality while transportation. The carrier is constituted mainly with two components i.e., the Battery Operated Self-contained Aerating Vehicle (BOSCAV) and Stackable Aerating Containers (SAC) or Non-stackable aerating container (NSAC). The fish mortality in traditional system is 50-60% for carps mainly the Indian Major Carps (IMCs) which include rohu (Labeo rohita), catla (Catla catla) and mrigal (Cirrihinus mrigala) and other exotic carps including common carp (Cyprinus carpio), silver carp (Hypophthalmicthys molitrix), bighead carp (Hypophthalmicthys nobilis) etc. of 0.5 kg to 2.0 kg weight. But the invented new system reduces mortality to less than 5% for a journey period of about 4-5 hours. The system is convenient to handle fish by 1 person whereas 4-5 labours/trip are required in traditional method. It increases survival of fish during transportation and ensures less use of water with increased vehicle stability and less running costs.