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Dileep V Kumar ByExpress News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Lending a helping hand to aqua farmers in protecting the health of rearing stock, the Fisheries Department will set up an Aquatic Animal Health Centre at Odayam in Varkala here. The centre that will come up at the Multi-Species Shrimp Hatchery Complex will be operated by the Agency for the Development of Aquaculture Kerala. “The draft fisheries policy 2019 had envisaged the setting up of such a centre in all the districts. For setting up the centre at Odayam, assistance of Rs 88.43 lakh has also been sanctioned,” said an officer of the Fisheries Department. The Aquatic Animal Health Centre will be equipped with facilities including water quality analysis, microbiology and histopathology, PCR laboratory and others..