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, …
The El Niño weather pattern, a phenomenon associated with extreme droughts, storms and floods, is expected to strengthen before the end of the year and become one of the strongest on record, the U.N. weather agency said on Monday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said this El Niño was already …
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has released a technical study, titled 'Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability in Fisheries and Aquaculture: Available Methodologies and their Relevance for the Sector,' which provides an overview of vulnerability assessment methodologies and their application in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. The study …
During 1945 to 1980, nitrate levels in large U.S. rivers increased up to fivefold in intensively managed agricultural areas of the Midwest, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study. In recent decades, nitrate changes have been smaller and levels have remained high in most of the rivers studied. The …
A new scientific study says that rapidly warming waters off the New England coast have had a severe consequence — the collapse of a cod fishery that saw too many catches even as overall cod numbers declined due to warmer seas. It’s just the latest in a series of findings …
Only four percent of the ocean is protected, and marine protected areas (MPA) make up all of that four percent, according to researchers from the University of British Columbia, Institute for Ocean and Fisheries. "The targets call for much more than just 10 percent protection," said Lisa Boonzaier, lead author …
Increasing pollution is threatening the seas and ecology surrounding the tourist island of Phu Quoc in Vietnam's southern Kien Giang province, local media reported Monday. Rubbish and waste water from tourism services, fishing boats and fish breeding farms are discharging some 180 tons of waste per day, though only half …
This report assesses the impact of climate change on agriculture and fisheries in three Pacific Island countries, including the impacts on agricultural production, economic returns for major crops, and food security. Alternative adaption policies are examined in order to provide policy options that reduce the impact of climate change on …
PORTLAND, OREGON – U.S. federal government officials have killed more than 1,000 seabirds on an Oregon island since May to protect endangered salmon as part of a plan that environmentalists say is flawed and are seeking to stop with a lawsuit. So far, 1,221 adult cormorants have been killed and …
Commercial fishing would be allowed in sensitive coral reefs and pristine waters off Australia under advice set to be presented to the Turnbull government that discards landmark marine protections, conservationists say. Critics say the review of 40 marine reserves is also unlikely to curtail the oil and gas industry, which …
A plague of coral-eating starfish that have caused alarm over their seemingly unstoppable attack on the Great Barrier Reef can be killed off with a simple dose of household vinegar, scientists have discovered. Crown-of-thorns starfish are considered to be one of the two leading causes, along with cyclones, of a …
Populations of fish critical to human food security are in serious decline worldwide with some at risk of collapse according to the emergency edition of a WWF report released. WWF’s Living Blue Planet Report finds that much of the activity threatening the ocean is avoidable and solutions do exist to …
The US Navy has agreed to limit its use of sonar that may inadvertently harm whales and dolphins in waters near Hawaii and California. A federal judge in Honolulu signed the deal between the Navy and environmental groups on Monday. It restricts or bans the use of mid-frequency active sonar …
Local people say way of life is under threat from industrial vessels, and see plan as chance to protect environment and repair relations with mainland In the pre-dawn gloom in a small harbour on Easter Island, three fishermen fill their boats. Instead of piling nets, they load rocks which they …
Hundreds of kilograms of dead fish were brought to the headquarters of the People's Committee in coastal Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, in a protest against river pollution yesterday morning. Local residents carried fish which were reportedly killed overnight by factory waste water. Those fish were just a few of thousands …
RAIPUR: Keeping in view the immense scope of fishery in irrigation water reservoirs and anicuts, Chhattisgarh government has chalked out a special action plan. Fishery will be practiced through cage culture in water reservoirs and anicuts with more than two hundred hectares area. Department's guidelines state that cage culture unit …
It turns out that allowing trawl nets to drag deep below the ocean, and other forms of deep-sea fishing that scoop up or kill many species, is a real threat to marine environments and vulnerable species. It also doesn't benefit fishermen. That is, researchers from the University of Glasgow and …
A four-decade-old conservation project has enabled the return of Mahseer in Indrayani river. Experts say the endemic fish, which can only be found in clean waters, was not spotted in the river since the 1970s. However, after a successful project was initiated in 2010, the fish has been spotted again …
Traditional fish workers and trawl operators in Kerala, long at loggerheads, have framed a code of responsible fishing practices. The article argues that this landmark agreement between two hitherto irreconcilable groups was borne out of a crisis in pelagic fish resources. It also argues that the agreement holds important lessons …
Glencore has yet to finish erecting signs warning of contaminated river life near a Northern Territory mine more than a year after the miner and the state government became aware of elevated levels of heavy metals. Government documents have revealed inconsistencies in the information given to the public about potential …
The deep sea is the world’s largest ecosystem, with high levels of biodiversity and many species that exhibit life-history characteristics that make them vulnerable to high levels of exploitation. Many fisheries in the deep sea have a track record of being unsustainable. In the northeast Atlantic, there has been a …
