<p>Order of the Gauhati High Court in the matter of Hasibur Rahman Vs State of Assam & Others dated 19/04/2024.</p> <p>The state of Assam vide Notification, January 20, 2024 has published a Standard
Overfishing partly caused by booming demand for shark fin soup, a delicacy in some Asian countries, is threatening the existence of 11 kinds of ocean sharks, an international study showed on Thursday. The fish, often seen as ferocious sea predators, suffer from largely unregulated fishing for their valuable fins, said the report into 21 species of sharks and rays living in the open oceans. The experts who wrote the study, organised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, also urged governments to quickly impose catch limits.
Staff of Peninsula Sea Fish Limited are busy packing frozen fish. The company has started to supply frozen sea fish to the domestic market to meet the rapidly growing demand for uncontaminated fish. One of the country's leading fish exporters has started to supply frozen sea fish to the domestic market to meet the rapidly growing demand for uncontaminated fish. Peninsula Sea Fish Limited (PSFL), a concern of the Peninsula Group, claims to be the first Bangladeshi company selling fish frozen at sea in the local market in any scale.
Tests have shown that the phenomenon of mass fish deaths that were experienced in many areas of the Maldives during the end of last year was caused by a type of bacteria, the Marine Research Centre (MRC) has said. According to a statement issued by the MRC, the Centre had sent samples to the Australian, American and Italian laboratories and the results of their tests had revealed that a type of bacteria called Streptococcus was the cause.
After four decades carrying millions of New Yorkers, 44 of the city's subway cars are now home to millions of fish. The worn-out cars were dumped on Friday into the Atlantic Ocean, 21 miles off the Maryland coast, to create an artificial reef, designed to attract fish for the state's lucrative sport-fishing industry. "These reefs provide quality habitat for marine life off our coast which benefits not only the environment but also local businesses," said Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan.
The population of Palla fish in Sindh has declined to a significant extent. This phenomenon is attributed to the reduced flow of Indus River, resulting in the restricted upstream migration of Palla fish for breeding.
Proactive involvement of private sector, high fish production and soft loans to the farmers has made fish farming a profitable industry in the province. This was stated by Director General Fisheries Punjab Dr Muhammad Ayub while addressing a departmental meeting at Fisheries Research and Training Institute (FRTI).
The district administration has put a ban on catching all kinds of fishes in Kaptai Lake for an indefinite period from May 1. The ban, which will be applicable for fishermen as well as common people, will include netting, marketing, preservation, drying and transportation of fishes, district administration sources said. The fishermen have been instructed to transport their dried fishes from Rangamati to other destinations by May 3. As per the instruction, Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation will take legal action against violators of the order.
Mercury contamination in rivers can spread to nearby birds, even ones that don't eat fish or other food from the water. Researchers from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., found high levels of mercury in the blood of land-feeding songbirds living near the South River, a tributary of the Shenandoah, they report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. The South River was contaminated with industrial mercury sulfate from 1930 to 1950 and it remains under a fish consumption advisory.
Southern China braced on Thursday for the first typhoon of the year, with almost 22,000 fishing boats called back to harbour, state media said. Typhoon Neoguri was heading north for the island province of Hainan, skirting the coast of Vietnam, and was forecast to make landfall on Friday night or Saturday morning. "Heavy rain and strong gales will hit Guangdong and Hainan with the approach of the typhoon," Xinhua news agency said.
The Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), an organisation representing the fishermen community, has announced launching of a protest campaign on April 21 against the "excesses committed by the Defence Housing Authority to evict fishermen from their ancestral villages and deprive hundreds of them of their livelihood.' Speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Thursday, PFF general secretary Saeed Baloch and other leaders said that the DHA administration was forcing the fishermen's community to abandon the make-shift jetty in Gizri Creek.
