Order of the Gauhati High Court in the matter of Hasibur Rahman Vs State of Assam & Others dated 19/04/2024. The state of Assam vide Notification, January 20, 2024 has published a Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for restricting import/stock/sale of fish imported from other than self sufficient states by road/river …
The Western Ghats is one of the world’s most heavily populated biodiversity hotspots providing for and supporting 400 million people. However, these diverse freshwater ecosystems face many threats because of untrammelled economic development. In most instances the development planning process does not consider the requirements of these freshwater ecosystems, mainly …
Inspite of the immense potential for developing fisheries, the State has not made any major progress in the Fisheries sector, due to various constraints, fund allocation being one of them. Therefore, it has been decided to give a thrust to the sector by launching a “Meghalaya State Aquaculture Mission”, to …
This manual on Animal Husbandry Statistics is one of series of manuals on statistical indicators proposed to be brought out by the CSO. The basic purpose of this manual is to provide the users of Animal Husbandry data with a ready to use reference guide on methodological aspects of data …
The first comprehensive soil survey from areas around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant showed extensive ground contamination and another report warned of the continued threat to Japan's food chain, underscoring the major challenges the country still faces in its radioactive cleanup efforts. Separately, the operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric …
A rotten stench hung over a 60-mile stretch of Louisiana's Pearl River as boats trawled through thick layers of hundreds of thousands of dead fish, and sweating workers bent to scoop the carcasses from the water. The fish, including federally protected Gulf sturgeon as well as catfish and flounder, died …
Concerned with tar balls washing ashore after the sunken MV Rak Carrier began puking oil, I’ve decided to stay away from seafood. But has the fish we consume been safe otherwise? I’m afraid not. In 2005, when dead fish shoals washed ashore Mumbai’s beaches, I’d collected samples of sea water …
Itanagar: Chief Minister Jarbom Gamlin on Tuesday emphasised upon promoting fisheries as an alternate source of livelihood, especially for the youths of the state. ”With a significant wide range of fish resources, ranging from Alpine varieties to tropical ones in the lower altitudes, Arunachal Pradesh has the capability of emerging …
Information on 1,000-odd species of flora and fauna Kodiyathur's richness in terms of history, culture, flora, and flora is clearly reflected in its biodiversity register. Backed by the Kerala Biodiversity Board, the Kodiyathur panchayat committee released the biodiversity register recently, successfully completing a project envisaged under the People's Plan programme …
Recognising healthy ecosystems as the basis for sustainable water resources and stable food security can help produce more food from each unit of agricultural land, improve resilience to climate change and provide economic benefits for poor communities, according to a new report from the UNEP and the IWMI, in partnership …
Beginning late this summer, one of the most promising and pure acts of environmental restoration the region and the nation have ever seen will get under way here, experts say, in the form of the largest dam removal project in American history. It will demolish two massive hydroelectric dams, one …
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 …
Environmentalists yesterday called on the authorities to suspend a private hydro power project in Warathenna, Kandy after dead fish of a critically endangered species known as Labeo Fisheri, commonly known as the
For 10,000 years the Nisqually Indians have relied on chinook salmon for their very existence, but soon those roles are expected to reverse. Based on current warming trends, climate scientists anticipate that in the next 100 years the Nisqually River will become shallower and much warmer. Annual snowpack will decline …
New York environmental regulators finalized rules to reduce cooling water intake by power plants and other industrial facilities to reduce fish kills by 90 percent. But this rule is about more than just fish and water. It could lead to the shutdown of the giant Indian Point and threaten the …
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 29 lakh metric tons of fishes in 2009-10 fiscal year," he said at the inaugural session of a workshop at …
The government has initiated a project to protect local small fish varieties from extinction, which is expected to increase fish production by 1500 metric tonnes in two years. Under the Tk 36 crore project, the Department of Fisheries will develop 70 water bodies in 39 upazilas of 17 districts to …
A large fraction of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere by human activity enters the sea, causing ocean acidification. We show that otoliths (aragonite ear bones) of young fish grown under high CO2 (low pH) conditions are larger than normal, contrary to expectation. We hypothesize that CO2 moves freely …
The Fisheries sector in Assam is showing gradual improvement in the last few years, but some serious drawbacks have stymied further growth limiting the prospects of nearly 2,80,000 fish farmers of the State. With a new government in place, and a new Minister in charge, fish farmers and officials believe …
The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2011-2020 says that a good harvest in the coming months should push commodity prices down from the extreme levels seen earlier this year. However, the Outlook states that over the coming decade real prices for cereals could average as much as 20 percent higher and those …
