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
Fisheries
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Military again seeks environmental waivers
The US Defense Department has asked for broad exemptions from environmental regulations in an expanded version of a bill that was defeated in the Senate last year. The military is asking for
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Seafood exporters plan tracking system
The Seafood Exporters' Association of India will put in place a mechanism to track seafood consignments from the farm level to destination as a part of quality assurance, according to industry
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An Aquarium without fish
The Fisheries Department in Jammu may have received huge amounts of money but there are very few fish in the water to show for it. In Jammu, you can get any variety of fish from Mumbai, West Bengal
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Seafood checking labs to go on stream by May
The analytical facilities for checking antibiotic residues in seafood will be operationalised in May, according to Mr Jose Cyriac, Chairman, Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA). The
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Kumta to get marine biotech centre
US-based Biogenus today signed a MoU with Karnataka Government to set up a Marine Biotech research station at Kumta in Uttara district and a Bacterial culture and enzyme plant in
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'Sea-ranging' project to solve fish famine
To solve the fish famine problem in Karnataka and to increase fish production in the sea, a new project 'C-Ranging' will be implemented in the month of June, informed Vasant V Salian, ports and
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Chennai firms to test new shrimp species cultivation
The country could soon become the latest entrant to take up cultivation of an exotic species of shrimp, a variety in great demand elsewhere. The species, Litopenaeus vannamei, known in the trade as
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Expert moots curbs on fishery exports
"Promoting fishery exports from developing countries will endanger the nutritional status of poor fish consumers because domestic supplies will decline," Dr John Kurian, Centre of Development Studies
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MPEDA plans 'safe shrimp' project in Andamans
The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) plans to set up a shrimp domestication project in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Mr Jose Cyriac, Chairman, MPEDA, told Business Line that
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East coast getting barren of fish
Fish population on the east coast is dropping drastically. Empty mechanised boats and groups of sleeping fishermen on the Visakhapatnam fishing harbour bear this out eloquently. With nearly 90 per