Typical agriculture sectors like animal production and processing, aquaculture and its processing, and fruit and vegetable processing, can be water-intensive and generate complex and sometimes severe pollution. Controlling pollution hinges on knowing its quantity (wastewater and solid waste volume) and characteristics (major pollutants and their concentration range, nature of wastes, …
Chilika , Asia's biggest salt water lake spread over 1,100 square kilomentres, is choking with an ever-increasing silt load and spreading nets of prawn culturists. Crass commercialism in the form of hundreds of fishing boats and tourist launches, which churn its waters day in and day out is taking its …
With the weathermen predicting timely arrival of monsoon this year, the clamour for and against the trawling ban has gained strength in Kerala. While the boat operators are continuing their lobbying against imposition of the ban during monsoon season, the traditional fishermen have decided to step their agitation for a …
A day after the Kali Gandaki A (KGA) officials signed the tender for "Lot 7" of the multi-million dollar hydropower project with TATA-Marubeni, the second best bidder slammed the Ministry of Water Resources for its failure to investigate "inconsistencies" in the tender evaluation.
The Orissa High Court has given sanction to the controversial fishing jetty project near Bhitarkanika wildlife sanctuary. The project had attracted media attention in 1994 when wildlife activists and conservationists from different parts of the world demanded its scrapping.A Division Bench comprising Mr. Justice Arijit Pasayat and Mr. Justice P.C. …
The Tamil Nadu Government will shortly launch a Rs. 15-crore programme with Centre's assistance for developing fish-landing centres, the Tamil Nadu Minister for Fisheries,Ms. S. Jenefer Chandran, announced in the Assembly on Friday.
The MV Greenpeace intercepted the first two illegal Italian driftneters of the season, 18 miles off the west coast of Sardinia The first of the driftneters, was fishing with a 5,85 kilometers net, more than twice the legal size established by the European Union (EU).
nearly 63 miners died in a methane gas explosion which took place in the Skochinsky coalmine, Donetsk, Ukraine. This was one of the Ukraine's worst mining disasters. Some 600 persons were working when the methane blast ripped the pit. Rescue teams had to burrow through 300 metres of rubble, 1.2 …
Gujarat led the national marine produce for 1997-98 with a volume of seven lakh tonnes, registering a six per cent growth over 6.60 lakh tonnes in the previous year. The contribution from inland fishing was to the tune of 70,000 tonnes during the year.
Traditional fishermen in Kerala are up in arms against the Centre's decision to allow import of some marine products under the Open General Licence(OGL).
Hong Kong is facing a renewed threat from the red tide sea algae which has already devastated the fishing industry, an expert said, on Friday, as five beaches were closed to swimmers.
The United States will not revoke the ban on shrimp imports from India unless Indian fishermen use turtle-excluding devices (TED), the State Department said on Friday. India and some other countries had recently won a case before World Trade Organisation panel against US law barring shrimp exports to the US …
Federal proposals to declare vast expanses of western US coast and rivers a safe haven for endangered salmon have cast industry, urban planners, power utilities, farmers and fishermen in the role of bad guys, wreckers of the environment. But evidence is mounting that the environment itself may be counted high …
Two thirds of world's population will be hit by water shortages by 2020. Aly Shady, vice president of the World Water Council, warned. Already 300m people in 26 countries are affected. The governing body of the council meeting in Cairo decided to speed up preparation of a report on a …
Bangladesh will receive five million US dollars from the United States for the Management of Aquatic Ecosystems through Community Husbandry (MACH) project under an agreement signed in Dhaka.
Study : There is a growing threat of over-exploitation of marine resources along the Indian coastline. The inexorable growth in the fishing population, in the number of mechanised and traditional fishing boats, in fishing harbours and processing units have triggered off this crisis.
The United States said on Monday that it will continue to import shrimps from 39 nations that meet a US law protecting sea turtles, a measures the World Trade Organisation (WTO) last month said violates global trade rules.
More than 5,000 fishermen's families living along the 27 km long coast from Kattumavadi to Enathi signed what they described as a 'Magna Carta' urging the State and Central Governments to strictly enforce the Coastal Regulation Zone Act (CRZA) protecting the vulnerable coastal resources and preserving the marine ecosystem.
Greenpeace released a report detailing the expansion of the capacity, or fishing power, of the world's industrial fishing fleet over the past few years. The report "Assessment of the World's Fishing Fleet 1991-1997" by Chris Newton and John Fitzpatrick, two leading international fisheries experts, calls for a 50 per cent …
The indigenously-built GSLV rocket will be launched during the early part of next year, according to Indian Space Research organisation (ISRO) sources. Work in this connection had already started at the Mahendragiri Liquid Propulsion System Centre, located in the border areas of Kanykumari-Tirunelveli districts in Tamil Nadu, the sources said.
