Department Information

The Department of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries is the administrative Ministry of this department. The Head of the State Department of Fisheries is the Hon. Minister, Fisheries and he is assisted by the Hon. Minister of State. The administrative machinery of the department is headed by the Hon. Secretary, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries (ADF). At the regional level, the Hon. Commissioner Fisheries is the Head of the Department.

Under this administrative structure, the office of the Hon’ble Commissioner of Fisheries, Maharashtra State is located in Mumbai. The Hon’ble Commissioner is assisted at the Commissioner level by three Joint Commissioners of Fisheries, three Deputy Commissioners of Fisheries, one Executive Engineer and one Deputy Registrar of Cooperative Societies (Fisheries) and at the regional level by seven Regional Deputy Commissioners of Fisheries.

The Assistant Commissioner of Fisheries is the District Head. A total of 1050 employees including gazette officers and non-gazette employees are working in the department.

The structural arrangement from the Commissionerate to the District Office is shown in the form of an organization chart.

Organizations complementary to the work of the department:

• Maharashtra Fisheries Development Corporation, Mumbai.
• Taraporwala Marine Biological Research Station, Mumbai.
• Fisheries College, Dr. B.S.Sawant Konkan Krishi Vighapeeth, Ratnagiri.
• Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Nagpur.