ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai-400061, Maharashtra
*Corresponding author: arpitasharma@cife.edu.in
Online published on 22 February, 2021.
Through data mining, patents in Indian fisheries were extracted for year 2019. Of all filed applications 0.1% and among granted patents 0.069% were from fisheries. Fisheries post-harvest had 56.25% inventions related to fatty acids, fish oil/gelatin, chitin cholesterol extraction, phytase supplementation and drying rack. Aquaculture related 43.75% inventions were inflatable covering, cultivation with high growth, aeration device, shellfish apparatus, pearl oyster, fish culture device and pond monitoring. Indians were granted 56.25% of patents. ICAR fisheries institutes had 4 patents, 2 from Universities and 3 from companies. European countries and USA had 3 patents each and 1 was from New Zealand.
