The Marine Museum at the Marine Aquarium and Regional Centre (M.A.R.C.) of Zoological Survey of India (Z.S.I.), Digha was thrown open to the public.

 The Marine Museum was inaugurated at the Marine Aquarium and Regional Center (MARC) of Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) in Digha, West Bengal. It was introduced alongside one day National Seminar on Coastal Zone Management and Marine Biodiversity at East Medinipur locale of West Bengal.

Components of the Marine Museum:

• The recently developed historical center that is tossed open to general society contains Fish exhibition, Coral display, and Molluscan display with more than 500 marine species show.

• The species incorporate fishes, ocean snakes, molluscs, corals, crabs, prawns, lobsters, echinoderms, horse-shoe crabs and so forth.

• It shows a few mindfulness notices identified with marine life, marine biodiversity and protection.

• It would help the understudies and open with the end goal of mindfulness on marine biodiversity protections and additionally serve as a stage for the understudies having enthusiasm on sea life science from all over India.

About Zoological Survey of India (ZSI):

• It is a head Indian association in zoological research and studies. It was built up on 1 July 1916 to advance the study, investigation and exploration of the fauna in the area.

• The exercises of the ZSI are composed by the Conservation and Survey Division under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

• It gained the Zoological accumulations of over exceptionally old from previous Museum (1814 - 1875) of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and Zoological Section of the Indian Museum (1875-1916) in Calcutta.

• The extension project of the overview was started with the expanding enthusiasm for the life sciences and with the coming of nation's Five Year Plans.

• It got around 17 local focuses the nation over and one among them is Marine Aquarium and Regional Center (MARC) in Digha, West Bengal which finished 25th years of administration to the country on faunal inventory and research.