As part of the Government of India’s Swachtta Pakwada campaign, the State Department of Fisheries, in association with the National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) organised a workshop today on hygienic fish handling in the conference hall of the Directorate of Fisheries. In his welcome speech, SK Das, Director of Fisheries laid stress on achieving the desired goal of the fishery sector in the State. Jurie Deka Thakur, Joint Secretary to the Government of Assam, Fishery Department inaugurated the workshop, which was attended by scientists, researchers, administrators and a large number of fish farmers and fish traders. She hoped programmes like this would help the fishery sector in the coming days. Dr BK Bhattacharjee, head, Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, NE region and Dr Sanjay Sarma, officer in-charge, NFDB, Regional Centre among others were present as guests of honour. Dr Sarma hoped that such programmes would strengthen the fishery sector and assured of every possible help from the NFDB. Dr Bhattacharjee shared his ideas about how to handle fish hygienically in a scientific manner.