With a view to controlling the fish market, the Assam govt will soon merge the Assam Apex Cooperative Fish Marketing and Processing Federation Ltd (Fishfed) with the state fisheries department. Fishfed is currently being run by the cooperative department, reports Telegraph.
The move to merge Fishfed with the fisheries department had been taken in June this year. The move is also prompted by the aim of eliminating middlemen, assuring better price for fishermen and an assured market for consumers.
Fishfed is the apex cooperative federation to help the state’s fishermen for their socio-economic development through primary fisheries cooperative societies by increasing production of fish through member societies and through its own project.
A source close to fishfed says fishfed had 516 cooperative societies under its control worked for fish production, but because of various reasons, most of them are inactive.