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• 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

  • 12/09/2012

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Aquaculture
    • Fisheries
    • North East
    • Development
    • Bhubaneswar
    • Shillong
    • Tripura
    • Nagaland
    • Meghalaya

• Call to reduce fishing grounds

  As much as 40 per cent of the world's fishing grounds should be made

  • 28/12/2002

  • Financial Times (London)
  • • Fisheries

• Guards to escort suspected fish poacher to Australia

  Armed guards began escorting a Uruguayan fishing trawler back to Australia after a 21-day chase through freezing Antarctic seas. The crew of the vessel is suspected of poaching the highly prized

  • 29/12/2002

  • • Fisheries

• Cheerful start to fishing season

  The new fishing season began on a promising note as the mechanised fishing vessels netted tones of the prized solar shrimp off the Goan coastal waters. The total catch of solar unloaded at the

  • 12/12/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Fisheries

• Shrimp farming activity goes unabated despite SC guidelines

  When the Supreme Court framed guidelines on aqua culture or shrimp farming activity, it came as a welcome development for many. For, the guidelines sought to regulate the activity in a way that would

  • 06/12/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Fisheries

• Concern over deep-sea fishing policy

  The Sindh (Pakistan) government has reservations over the federal deep-sea fishing policy and proposed that the zone from 12 to 20 nautical miles from coastline may be treated as a buffer zone,

  • 01/12/2002

  • • Fisheries

• Solar shrimps fast disappearing shattering dreams of fishermen

  It's not even a week now since mechanised fishing began on August 11 in Goa, but the much-sought after prized 'solar' shrimp appears to be fast disappearing. Indeed, after a good harvest of the

  • 17/12/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Fisheries

• MMC lodges police complaint against SGPDA contractor

  The shifting of the wholesale fish market might have been a smooth affair, but the collection and disposal of fish waste at the new site has virtually brought face to face the South Goa Planning and

  • 21/12/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Fisheries

• State's amphibians dwindling in numbers alarmingly

  There is an alarming decline of 20 to 25 per cent in Assam State's amphibian population. This has come to notice in the past five to seven years' time. During the period, some amphibian species have

  • 30/12/2002

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Fisheries

• Gujarat Fisheries Act to protect environment

  In an effort to develop fisheries in the coastal belt of Gujarat, the state government has initiated implementation of 'Gujarat Fisheries Act 2003' from August 15

  • 05/12/2002

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Fisheries

• Conservation, sustainable utilisation of marine fisheries resources stressed

  Speakers at a seminar emphasised on formulation of a time bound action plan and implement it with coordinated efforts for preservation and management of Bangaldesh's vast marine fisheries

  • 26/12/2002

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Fisheries