The EXTENSION, INFORMATION AND STATISTICS DIVISION of the Institute was established in March 1961 with a view to popularize research results for the overall development of the fishery industry, to provide a forum for feed back to the Institute, the technical problems faced by the fishermen, fisheries departments and fishery industry as a whole, to organize short term refresher courses, to conduct research investigations for studying the extent of adoption of the new and improved technologies developed by the Institute and to conduct economical and statistical investigations on the technological problem involved in fishery technology.