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, …
it is feared that several Victorian shearers may have been poisoned by a chemical linked to the manufacture of nerve gas, according to labour unions in Australia. The Australian Workers Union ( awu ) is contacting shearers exposed to the chemical diazinon. The chemical has been found in many sheep …
Recognising that ordinary fishermen make an important contribution to the state's economy and prevent over-exploitation of marine resources by big firms. Kerala is opening an agency to help traditional fishing communities.
Some 300 protesting small fishermen called off their blockade of Songkhla Bay yesterday after the authorities acceded to their demand to prohibit large anchovy purse seiners from fishing in provincial waters. The fishermen had blocked the bay with their boats since Saturday to press their demands. They complained that the …
After hectic efforts by Federal Food and Agriculture Ministry, the European Community agreed to restore fish export to European countries by Pakistan. Earlier, Pakistan was in the third list of European Community and it also decided not to import fish from Pakistan six months ago unless certain steps were taken …
The Bangladesh government as part of its responsiblity will give maximum emphasis on five main strategies for implementation of the national fisheries policy with a view to increasing fish production throughout the country. The government's efforts would be exerted on extensive research, expansion, training, consulting service and supervision in the …
Sri Lanka will introduce new laws to combat marine pollution soon, following a recent oil spill at the country's biggest port, a senior government official said on Thursday. The Chairman of the Marine Pollution Prevention Authority (MPPA), Mr. Dhanapal Weerasekera, told Reuters in an interview that the government would soon …
The controversial Tehri dam was safe from earthquake but government was considering the necessity of conducting two more seismic tests there as a precaution, the Supreme Court was informed yesterday.A division bench consisting of Justice A S Anand and Justice V N Khare, while adjourning hearing on three public interest …
The Supreme Court yesterday referred the question of its jurisdiction to interfere with the orders of the Inter-state River Water Disputes tribunals to a constitution bench when the Almatti dam dispute was taken up.
A mysterious disease is killing Japanese ousters and causing a worldwide pearl shortage. The disease has claimed up to 70 per cent of the pearl oyster population in Japan, sending the price of a medium-quality strand up 20-30 per cent. Scientists are investigating wide variety of possible causes, from abnormally …
A team from the European Union will shortly visit India to check on the country's marine product exporters following charges of violation of a ban on seafood trade with its member nations.
Many different varieties of fish in Bangladesh are going to be extinct owing to indiscriminate use of insecticides in the crop fields. Owing to the lack of proper knowledge the farmers use excessive pesticides which kill insects and destroys the eggs of fish.
Thailand has declared shrimp farms located in the fertile rice growing plains of central Thailand-illegal because of their potential damaging effects to water and soil.
As inland shrimp farmers prepare to converge on Bangkok for a protest, a crack has opened in the government campaign to ban operations in freshwater zones. Pongpol Adireksarn, the agriculture minister, appeared to give some ground yesterday by saying the ban may be relaxed for farms that meet stringent environmental …
The $65 million supertrawler American Monarch, rejected earlier by three Latin American countries and Falklands because of its potential to jeopardise fish stocks, is trying to gain access to already depleted fishing grounds off Russia's Far East.
Japan's announcement that will commence its 'experimental fishing program' to take 1400 tonnes of southern bluefin tuna has placed the future of the species at even greatern risk of extinction. Japan announced that 65 vessels would be involved in the program, which will take Japan's annual catch of the critically …
The centre is formulating a comprehsnsive national hydro power policy to remove the bottlenecks which came in the way of expenditious execution of hydel projects in the country.
The Karnataka State Government will take up the Tunga diversion scheme, a new irrigation project, utilising 20 tmcft of water, giving up the Upper Bhadra Project, which was talked about for a long time.
The water pollution in the rivers Buriganga and Shitalakkhya has depleted almost all fishes, said a survey. The survey conducted by the Surface Water Modelling Centre (SWMC), an independent unit under Water Resources Ministry of Bangladesh said "we have not seen a single fishing boat from Mirpur to Pagla point …
European Union has withdrawn ban from 11 more Bangladeshi frozen fish exporting factories. The EC in August last year imposed ban on importing frozen fish from Bangladesh industries "for low quality".
