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, …
Petrol in Sweden will contain less sulphur than any in Europe by the year 2000. Swedish oil companies recently agreed to switch to petrol containing fewer than 50 parts sulphur per million (ppm). Planned European legislation will set a higher limit of 150 ppm. Rolf Annerberg, director-general of the Swedish …
government officials in the us have announced that wild Pacific salmon are nearly extinct. They have also put major urban areas on notice that millions of people may face disruptions and higher living costs if the fish is to be restored as the law requires. The proposed listing of at …
Japan and South Korea have agreed on a new bilateral fishing treaty, starting with working level talks. Discussions broke down in January after Japan unilaterally withdrew from the previous agreement after the sides failed to agree on redrawing exclusive fishing zones.
The dip in the global catch of shrimp from the sea has been more or less compensated by a surge in production from aquaculture ponds and farms. However recurrent disease problems during 1996 and 1997 had resulted in production falling far short of targets, squeezing supplies and resulting in a …
The National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (ICAR) , Lucknow, and Assam (Bhorelli) Anglers Association is going to organize an awareness campaign to save threatened fishes in the surroundings of the JiaBhorelli river, from April 4 to 5.
In late February the National Fisheries Service of United States said that several species of salmon that live in Washington state may be about to be listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the federal government's environmental equivalent of the hydrogen bomb. Washington is not alone: the fisheries agency says …
In a major victory for India and several other complainants, the WTO early this month, ruled that a US embargo on imports of shrimps from India on environmental grounds was untenable. According to Government sources, a confidential interim panel ruled that the US ban on wild shrimp (caught without the …
About 65 per cent of major cities in the world are situated in the coastal regions and industrial wastes, diverted to these regions, are the major sources of pollution resulting in the decrease of the coastal fisheries.
Poisonous exhaust fumes belting out from autos and buses are the biggest culprits in contributing to visible traffic pollution in Delhi, according to a survey organised by Nature's Soule, a non-governmental organisation. Over 64 per cent of autos, and 59 per cent of buses and trucks, were observed emitting thick …
There is an urgent need to replace the current "speed lanes" system that responds to the varied demands of speed, synergy and optimal distribution of trafffic on roads, says a recent survey conducted by the NGO _ Nature's Soul in tandem with the Class XI students of Delhi. The survey …
Eminent scientists have offered to help Delhi University set up a centre for research and development activities in the field of aquaculture . The offer was made at a national symposium on sustainable aquaculture which was organised by the department of Botany and Society of Ocean Scientists and Technologists (SOST) …
The Central Ground Water Board will organise a mass awareness programme in the rural areas of Dharmapuri district on March 23 and 24. The Board will highlight the significance of water availability, quality, protection and conservation techniques.
study initiated: The Punjab Government has asked an Amritsar-based scientist for studying the "impact of pollution on fish production. Official sources said continued decline in the fish production in the main rivers and canals of the state had forced the Punjab Government to allocate the project to the scientist who …
The earthquake hazard facing Southern California may be substantially less severe than scientists had calculated, according to researchers who say that they have dispelled the notion of an earthquake deficit that would trigger a stream of catastrophic temblors in the next few decades.
The Planning Commission has called for intensive research and development (R&D;) in the fisheries and marine products' sector to achieve the WHO recommendation of an intake of 11 kg fish per person annually."Efforts will be made to intensify R&D; activities for the production of quality fish seeds and feed for …
The Planning Commission has called for intensive research and development (R&D;) in the fisheries and maritime products sector to acheive the World Health Organisation's (WHO) recommendation of an intake of 11 kg fish per person annually. Based on the projected human population and considering that 56 per cent of the …
farmed Atlantic salmon have become the latest problem for the wavering populations of Pacific salmon on Canada's Pacific coast. Most fish raised in the rapidly growing coastal salmon farming industry of British Columbia are strains of Atlantic salmon as they grow faster and tolerate crowding much better than the several …
From ancient fish genes geneticists have reconstructed a stretch of DNA that can "hop' in and out of chromosomes. This gene could expedite the development of gene therapy to tackle diseases. Such mobile genetic units (called transposons) are usually found in insects and worms. Transposons, only a few thousand base …
the fisheries minister of Kerala, T K Ramakrishnan, has blamed the Union government's deep-sea fishing policy for depletion of marine wealth. He said that the Centre had allowed for deep-sea fishing to foreign vessels on hire, vessels of foreign joint-venture companies and ships indulging in fishing on an experimental basis. …
The Vizhinjam research centre of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) has developed a new farming procedure for multi-crop system to cultivate pearls, mussels, finfishes, shellfishes and other organisms in shallow sea bottom using special cages. This technology developed for the first time in the country, will help in …
