Smt. J. Mercykutty Amma, Hon’ble Minister for Fisheries, Harbour Engineering and Cashew Industry, Government of Kerala, inaugurated the Fisheries Information Management System (FIMS) and published Online Fisherfolk Family Register in a function held at the Centre for Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Ernakulam, Kerala on 2nd August 2019. Shri S. Sharma, Hon’ble Member of Legislative Assembly, Shri S. Venkatesapathy, IAS, Director of Fisheries and Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan, Director, CMFRI, along with Smt. Twinkle George, Technical Director, NIC Kerala and Smt. Syama K., DIO, NIC Ernakulam were also present on the occasion. Officers working in the sector, elected members and representatives of fishermen also participated in the event. In her inaugural address, Smt. J. Mercykutty Amma expressed the need of utilizing the fisherfolk register for providing all sorts of benefits to the fisherfolk community and also for eliminating the undeserved. Shri S. Venkatesapathy also explained the scope of FIMS software and future action plan in detail. FIMS is a web-enabled workflow-based system for building up of online Fisherfolk Family Register for the implementation and monitoring of welfare schemes/services and to transfer benefits to bank accounts of the beneficiaries using Direct Benefit Transfer.