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 12th Indian Seafood Fair will be held in Kochi next year, between February 26 and 28, Marine Products Export development Authority (MPEDA) chairman K B Pillai said here today.
In a major victory for California environmentalists, a federal appeals court ruled that the federal government must adhere to species-protection laws when it diverts SanJoaquin River water to Central Valley farmers. The decision by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco "probably" will result in farmers getting …
A green laser beam will be shooting nearly two miles into the night sky above the streets of Philadelphia in an effort to study the smog and soot that plague cities. The $3 million urban atmosphere study funded by the US EPA has an aura of "Star Wars" and is …
The Andhra Pradesh Government has drawn up a fresh schedule proposing to release the Krishna waters into the Telugu Ganga from July 15 to meet the drinking water needs of Chennai city.
The probe into the alleged irregularities in the Karappuzha irrigation project has turned out to be a non-starter, with the Government and the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau citing technical reasons for the delay in booking the accused contractor.
Over 6,000 inhabitants of 23 Panshet villages - sandwitched between the waters of the Veer Baji Pasalkar reservoir and the formidable heights of the Western Ghats - will have to do without vital medical services this monsoon. Thanks to the Pune Zilla Parishad's failure to repair the only floating dispensary,grounded …
The Tamil Nadu Governemnt has defended its action in conveying to the Japanese funding agency its objection to extending assistance to the Bangalore drinking water scheme, as, it was consistent with its policy followed on the Cauvery water issue. The stand taken by Tamil nadu was that Karnataka should abide …
A solution to the issue of restoring the water level of the Periyar dam to 152 ft from 136 ft hangs in the balance with Tamil Nadu continuing to set store by the Central authorities' recent suggestion of raising the level in phases and the Kerala Chief Minister urging his …
The Maharashtra government's move to construct a fifth-generation aquarium at the site where the famous Taraporevala aquarium is currently housed has attracted flak from activists and competitors alike. While the activists are opposing the aquarium on several grounds, chiefly the razing of the Taraprevala aquarium to accomodate the underground aquarium …
The Canadian government has announced a long-awaited $753 package to support east and west coast fisheries, but recipients said the aid measures were insufficient. The package would provide fishermen with lump sum payments, training and includes a fishing licence buy-back fund.
The global crisis in marine fisheries is being masked by the taking of younger and lower quality fish, massive imports from developing countries to the industrialised world and a rapid growth in fish farming, says the Worldwatch Institute.
The United Nations Development Programme will assist India with conservation and sustainable management of the coral reef ecosystem of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. A grant of nearly Rs 1.4 crore will be provided from the Global Environment Facility, a tripartite partnership between UNDP, World Bank and the UN Environment …
Europe's 13 major shrimp processing companies have formed a cartel and asked the European Commission (EC) to ban value-added shrimp imports from India and other Asian countries.
Greenpeace welcomes the historic decision to ban driftnets from European waters by the end of the year 2001. The ban will save the lives of countless dolphins, sharks, whales, turtles and other marine creatures.
The country's first multi-species fish stock enhancement programme, combining the technologies of aquaculture, capture fisheries and environmental management is set for launch through a scientific research co-operation programme.The $8,80,000 Indo-Australian venture involving sea-ranching will be fully funded by the Australian Government under the Australia-India New Horizons Initiative.
A Rs. 172-crore World Bank-aided project for shrimp culture was launched recently in West Bengal and will soon be implemented in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, according to Dr. M.Sakthivel, Senior Management Consultant and Advisor, World Bank Aided Aquaculture Projects.
Southwest China's Chongqing Muncipality will spend 70 million yuan in the next two years to set up an early warning system for torrential rains for the safety of the Three Gorges Project.
In a major victory for Indian seafood exporters, an interim panel of the WTO has ruled that an US embargo on imports of shrimps from India on environmental reasons was untenable, according to sources in the Fishery Survey of India.
The Kerala Government has beefed up security along the coast as the 45-day monsoon-time ban on trawling in its territorial waters became effective from midnight on Sunday.
The number of South Korean fishing boats operating in the sea off Japan has increased sharply in the past couple of years. Marine resources in the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and other parts of the sea off Japan are rapidly drying up. But no serious efforts are …
