The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute,
Cochin is the pioneer national establishment primarily engaged
in marine fisheries research in the country. As a programme of
dissemination of information the Institute published a code list
of common marine living resources of the Indian seas in 1983.
However, considerable changes have since occurred in the
nomenclature of many of the genera, families and species of
fishes. Hence it is felt that there is an urgent need to revise the
code list incorporating these changes. The present publication
is a result of this exercise
