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 sex life of shrimps is vital to India's exports. After they mate and proliferate, millions of shrimps are packed into cans and sent abroad, earning India a large chunk of the Rs 4,000 crore it earns in marine exports. So it's worrying that the growth rate of marine products …
Japan and South Korea are moving towards settlement of their fisheries dispute by autumn, when Kim Dae-Jung will pay his first visit to Japan as South Korean president.
The Ministry of Agriculture has resurrected the Aquaculture Authority Bill (AAB) which is to be taken up during the budget session of Parliament. The Bill comes after the Supreme Court's critical order on acquaculture in coastal areas.
The National Fishworkers' Forum has threatened to go on an indefinite agitation from May 27 to demand withdrawal of the Aquaculture Authority Bill, abandonment of the move to amend the Coastal Regulation Zone notification, cancellation of joint-lease licences and provision of a uniform monsoon trawl ban in all coastal States. …
If plans go through, three islands off Goa will jointly bcome the site for India's fifth marine national park, with protected coral species. The arch formed by three islands close to the port-town of Vasco da Gama - Grande, St George and Bat islands - are already regularly visited by …
The Delhi Chief Minister, Mr. Sahib Singh Verma, said today that the newly-constituted Delhi Jal Board had initiated several steps to provide adequate drinking water to the people during the summer months. He said the Board will supply bottled water in the market within the next three months which would …
Water has been always a topic of intense debate in the desert State of Rajasthan, more so in Pink City. The outgoing Governor of the State, Mr. Bali Ram Bhagat, recently admitted that he desisted drinking it throughout his tenure here while the 23 lakh residents of the City never …
metal pollution from salmon farms has caused serious threats to wildlife in some of Scotland's sea lochs. According to a study of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency ( sepa ), levels of copper and zinc in sediments beneath fish farms is 24 times as high as the safety limits proposed …
The country should be able to achieve a production level of at least two million tonnes from fish farming alone by the year 2025. This would be close to 3.9 per cent of the projected world aquaculture production, which is expected to hover around 51.8 m.t., the Central Marine Fisheries …
When millions of farmed fish began dying in Hong Kong earlier this month, the immediate response was to blame the government. Red tide, a mass blooming of toxic algae, had been spotted weeks before it began killing fish and the farmers wanted to know why they were not warned of …
Twelve Spanish fishing companies and some of their employees were ordered to pay record fines and costs of more than $1.67m for heavy over-fishing in British waters. The companies and their trawler skippers admitted more than 100 offences against European fishing regulations in the biggest such prosecution brought in a …
The National Fish Workers Forum has undertaken a massive exercise to prepare a data base on violations of the coastal regulatory zone notification. A series of workshops are to be held in the country to train fishermen and bring about awareness in them about these violations.
Governments across the developing countries, including India, are battling with the inescapable problems of emissions from their aged, overloaded and poorly maintained vehicle on their bad roads in cities and towns. Depleting ozone, climatic changes and global warming are threats forcing them to act. Many have few choices and are …
Dr. Vandana Shiva, Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi, writes:" The National Action Committee Against Coastal Industrial Aquaculture (NACACIA) condemns the renewed attempt of the Shrimp Industry to reactivate the Aquaculture Authority Bill (AAB) which is basically an undoing of the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Regulation. …
The National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) will launch an agitation in the coastal States to press for the withdrawal of the Aquaculture Authority Bill and other notifications that seek to dilute the provisions of the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) notification, according to a NFF press releaser.A decision to this effect was …
Some 130 people were killed between 1992 and 1997 while using explosives and toxic substances to help fishing in Vietnam, a report. Blasting and poisoning the seas also caused huge damage to marine life, the official Nhan Dan daily said.
A pod of sperm whales straned themselves on a beach in western Tasmania state on Thursday - the second to do so this month. Parks and wildlife service biologist Hans Wapstra said about 30 whales had beached themselves at Marrawah, on the northwest tip of the island state.
The seafood exporters association of India has demanded the Central Government to pass the Aquaculture bill. A delegation of the association led by its president Mr. A. J. Tharakan, which met the Union Commerce Minister. Mr. Ramakrishna Hegde at New Delhi recently, also wanted the Centre to provide financial assistance …
Greenpeace has appealed to President Yelstin not to allow Russia to return to commercial whaling. Earlier this week, Japanese media reported that Japan and Russia had agreed to set up agreement committee to promote whaling and work towards national catch limits. China and Korea were also named as members of …
A massive attack by a "Red tide" on and around the sea beaches of Hong Kong has destroyed 1,500 tones of fish, and left tones of dead fish floating in the sea, while the Hong Kong government has uneasily grappled with what is obviously becoming an additional serious threat to …
