The only station of its kind in the country was established in 1987 with a view to undertake research and development activities on various aspects of coastal aquaculture and fisheries management. The station is located at Paikgacha upzila under  Khulna district and has an area of 30.56 ha. The station has got 52 drainable experimental ponds of different sizes ranging from 0.05 to 1.0 ha, and an experimental hatchery for the production of prawn and commercially important brackishwater finfish seeds.

The station has 7 research divisions, such as: 

• Reproductive Physiology & Genetics,
• Nutrition Food & Feed Technology,
• Pollution, Disease Diagnostic & Control,
• Brackishwater Aquaculture,
• Estuarine Ecology & Environment,
• Soil, Water & Productivity Management, and
• Aquaculture Engineering. 

Function of Different Divisions

Administrative Division
Same as other stations             

Reproductive Physiology and Genetics                               

• To conduct experimentation on population genetics, biochemical genetics, genetical engineering, and also on biotechnological aspects for upgradation of gene pool and conservation of fish genetic resources.
• To conduct experimentation on reproductive physiology ecophysiological and endocrinological aspects of breeding of fish to achieve better control on their reproduction and quality seed production.

Nutrition Food and Feed Technology

• To conduct experimentation on the nutritional requirement of different life history stages of fish.
• To conduct digestive physiological experiments to understand the mechanism of better assimilation of food for higher fish production and to maximize output of the brood stock and healthy seed.
• To   survey   the  availability  of  locally available by-products of agro-industry for formulating a balanced and cost effective feed for fish.

Pollution, Disease Diagnostic and Control

• To undertake experimentation to develop diagnostic procedures for viral, bacterial, mycoses and algal diseases and protozoan and metazoan parasitic diseases.
• To undertake experimentation to understand the mechanism of environmental stress and environmental induced diseases.
• To assess pollution status and its impact on fisheries.
• To develop health monitoring and management system to incorporate into farming technology for increased production.
• To provide advice and policy recommendations on the control of pollution in consultation with Technology Testing and Monitoring and Conservation Policy Division of the FRI HQ.
• To provide technical support to extension programs relevant to the Division work.

Brackishwater Aquaculture

• To conduct experimentation to develop techniques for the commercial culture of potential brackishwater species.
• To conduct environmental impact studies on brackishwater developments.
• To provide technical support to extension programs relevant to the Division's work.

Estuarine Ecology and Environment

• To conduct environmental impact studies of modern development on estuarine ecology and suggest mitigating action.
• To study the biological diversity of estuarine, mangrove and coastal ecology.
• To study the detrital flow dynamics and its production potentiality.
• To provide advice and policy recommendation on coastal zone management in consultation with Technology Testing and Monitoring and Conservation Policy Division of FRI HQ.

Soil, Water & Productivity Management

• To study production process and its dynamics in brackishwater to optimise brackishwater pond productivity.
• To study the problematic coastal and estuarine soils and manage their productivity.

Aquaculture Engineering

• To study the engineering problems of brackishwater aquaculture.
• To undertake studies on the engineering aspects of freshwater aquaculture in cooperation with Freshwater Station and of mariculture with MFTS.
• To undertake study to evolve cost effective hatchery design for fish.