NFDB- Eastern Regional Centre (NFDB-ERC) was established in the year 2013, under the aegis of the NFDB. NFDB-ERC is on a sprawling campus of 119 acres (47.6 ha), on the campus of Government fish seed farm, Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar.

Objectives

The main objectives of NFDB-ERC are to maintain the good quality and/ or genetically improved fish broodstock obtained from the research organizations with proper package and management protocols and the multiplication of these Genetically Improved Fish Species (GIFS) broodstock in order to produce breeder seed and to distribute these breeder seed (fry/ fingerlings) to accredited/ networked hatcheries as the source for broodstock for further multiplication and to seed growers to act as the source for fingerlings being supplied to farmers to meet the seed demand from across the states in support of fisheries sector growth.