• Capacity building among coastal folk through training for income generation
   - Crab / lobster fattening
   - Vermi composting
   - Development of value added products using under utilized mollusk meat
   - Seaweed culture and utilization

• Environmental education and awareness creation

Community based conservation programme

• Community based artificial reef programme
• Community based reef restoration

• Training programme on “Popularization of Science and Technology among    fisher folk of Vellapatti village of Gulf of Mannar – Development of value    added products from under utilized marine resources such as gastropod    meat”, organized in Vellapatti coastal village, Tuticorin, 27.01.2001 –    02.02.2001.

• Training programme on “Popularization of Science and Technology among    coastal folk of Gulf of Mannar – Vermicomposting, Seaweed Culture &    utilization”, organized in Tuticorin, 01-02 March 2002.

• Training to 5 Self Help Groups (72 fisher women) from Vellapatti fishing    village in Tuticorin district on “Crab Fattening”, organized in Ottapidaram    Panchayat Union, Tuticorin, 18.04.2002.

• Training programme on “Vermicomposting for Self Help Groups in Tuticorin    Coast”, organized in Taruvaikulam coastal Village of Gulf of Mannar,    Tuticorin, 29.07.2004.

• Training to 52 SHG fisher women from Pudukottai district, Tamil Nadu on    “Crab Fattening”, organized in Tuticorin, 24 – 31 August 2005.

• Training programme on “Crab and Lobster Fattening” to the weaker    sections of the coastal community in Tuticorin district through Dept. of    Biotechnology, Govt. of India project, since August 2004.

• Training programme on “Seaweed Culture & Utilization” to the fisher women    in Gulf of Mannar through Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India    project, since August 2004.