India, July 23 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:

Fisheries Research Institutes under Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have initiated research programmes on Drones and expanding its uses to collect water samples for analysis from open-water bodies and difficult terrains; distribution of feed and medicines into culture systems; biomass estimation; health monitoring, etc. Further, a prototype drone is being developed by ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (ICAR-CIFRI) for transportation of fish and shrimp from production centre to market with a capacity of 70kg payload under Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada (PMMSY).

The Department of Fisheries has constituted a Technical Committee to formul...