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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Australia unveils plan to protect great barrier reef
Australia unveiled plans to bar fishing and shipping in nearly a third of the Great Barrier Reef in the biggest move yet to safeguard the world's largest living organism. Releasing the draft
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Awareness camps on fish germ plasm
The National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR), Lucknow, as part of its project entitled "Strategy and approach for conservation and comprehensive development of fisheries involving community
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Red algae controversy still on
The last word on the controversy surrounding the cultivation of red marine algae, Eucheuma alvarazii by the Pepsi Foods, along the coasts of the Palk Straits is yet to be spoken. While the Union
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Meet on trawling ban policy today
The recommendation of the Expert Committee on Conservation of Existing Fisheries Wealth on imposing a 65-day ban on trawling by all mechanised craft during monsoon is likely to make the crucial
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Acute water scarcity at Todikana temple casues death of fish
Water bodies in some parts of Sullia taluk of Mangalore have dried up causing untold hardships to farmers. To add to this is the drinking water scarcity. Still worse, is the death of hundreds of fish
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Row over Jambudwip settled
The dispute between the state fisheries department and the West Bengal state forest department over fishing in Jambudwip was settled after the intervention of the chief minister. It was decided that
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China starts annual fishing ban, fuel use to drop
China's annual fishing ban to preserve stocks, begun June 1 in the South China Sea, will extend to the rest of the east coast from July, two weeks earlier than last year, a government official said.
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'Pacific white shrimp imports illegal'
The illegal import and cultivation of the exotic white shrimp, which is a native of the Pacific waters of Latin America, is posing a grave threat to Indian aquaculture. Reacting to reports that the
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Fish farming to get a boost with new policy
The new integrated fish farming policy framed with the objective to augment the state's fish production, allows the farmer to carry out fish farming during monsoon on the same land where paddy is
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Fishermen hang up nets, ban in force from Today
It is time for fishermen in the coastal region to anchor their boats and hang up their nets for the next two months.Fishing by mechanised boats has been banned from June 10 till August 15 in both