Fish production in NE to be doubled by 2020
SHILLONG, Sept 11 – The Centre is planning to double the fish production in North-eastern region and aims at increasing its per capita availability to 15 kg by 2020. “We have a daunting task of achieving
SHILLONG, Sept 11 – The Centre is planning to double the fish production in North-eastern region and aims at increasing its per capita availability to 15 kg by 2020. “We have a daunting task of achieving
The High Court yesterday directed the government to stop use of tannery waste in poultry and fish feed production in the capital within 30 days. Delivering a verdict on a writ petition, the court also ordered the government to shut within this period the factories and business enterprises which are using tannery waste as ingredients in poultry and fish feed production. It also asked the auth
The Environment Ministry today designated protected status to another 12 species under the Environment Protection Act. The protected species are all types of turtles found in the Maldives, dolphins, napoleon wrasse, giant clams, black coral, whale sharks, conch, all types of whales and corals, sharks, all types of clams, pregnant lobsters and lobsters less than 25 centimetres.
Small fish play a big role in the oceans and catches should be cut sharply to safeguard marine food chains from plankton to blue whales, an international team of experts said on Thursday. Rising human exploitation of little fish -- including anchovy, sardine, herring, mackerel and capelin -- had had far less attention in marine research compared to big commercial species such as cod, tuna, swor
The World Trade Organization has ruled in favor of Mexico in a dispute over tuna with the United States that began more than 20 years ago, a high-ranking source close to the negotiations told Reuters. The WTO's decision lifts restrictions for Mexico to ship the fish to the United States, barred because it does not carry a "dolphin safe" label. The United States stopped selling Mexican tuna i
KOLKATA, 18 JULY: The state government has requested All India Radio (AIR) to undertake a survey to examine the transmission capacity of Kolkata-A-Channel, after reports that fishermen in the Bay of Bengal on the Indian side are receiving signals from a Bangladesh radio instead of the AIR. Such a survey is required because it was pointed out by fishermen that they are not getting weather warnin
Precisely at a time when the Assam Government has decided to promote agriculture and biodiversity conservation in a major way, a substantial tract of fertile land and a wetland are being handed over to the Assam Rifles to be converted into a built-up area.
Fisheries Federation will launch three new schemes soon for fishermen and their families. Besides, more efforts will be undertaken to increase fish production by the Federation. This information was given by Fisheries Minister Shri Ajay Vishnoi at the 68th review meeting of working committee of the State Fisheries Federation. Principal Secretary Fisheries Smt.
Europe's fisheries chief called for an overhaul of the European Union's failing fisheries policies on Wednesday, and warned those EU countries that may seek to resist reform that business as usual is not an option. The European Commission has estimated 75 percent of EU stocks are currently overfished, and a third of the bloc's fleet will become commercially unviable in the long term without dec
Dhaka: Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abul Latif Biswas on Wednesday said the government planned to increase the country's fish production to 3478,000 metric tons by 2013. "Bangladesh had produced around
About 10.56 lakh out of 16.89 lakh hectares of coastal land in the country are affected by salinity of various degrees, according to a survey of the Soil Resources Development Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture. The findings of the survey in 2010 on saline soil of Bangladesh said that more than 62 per cent out of the total cultivated land in the coastal areas had already been affected by