Dhamara Fishing Harbour

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Dhamra Fishing Harbour
Location
Country	India
Location	Dhamra, Odisha
Coordinates	20°47′35″N 86°54′02″E / 20.793178°N 86.900656°E / 20.793178; 86.900656
Details
Opened	March, 1978
Operated by	2009
Owned by	Government of Odisha
Type of harbour	Fishing port
No. of berths	3

Dhamara Fishing Harbour is an international standard Harbour. The Harbour is located in the North Bank of Dhamra River in the revenue village Dhamara, Dist. Bhadrak. It has become the first harbour certified by Export Inspection Agency (EIA) in the state following approval of the Export Inspection Council (EIC), India and meets the Euro standard fish food as specified by European Union.

The major species landing in the jetties are (i) Pomfret (ii) Shrimps (iii) Bombay Duck (iv) Hilsha (v) Mackerel (vi) Johnius (Vii) Ribbon fish (Viii) Megalops (ix) Borei etc. These species have high demand both in National and International market.^[1]

All these fish landings are maintained with proper cold chain and processed hygienically for value addition to fetch good price in the market which are regularly checked by the Harbour Authorities for maintenance of the quality.