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, …
An asteroid is likely to pass within 30,000 miles of Earth on Oct 26, 2028, and there is a possibility that it would hit Earth, the international astronomical agency (Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) that tallies the orbits of asteroids and comets announced.
A three-day international seminar on coral reefs began today, at Lakshadweep, with marine scientists and experts seeking the help of local islanders to preserve and protect the corals which keep the archipelago's eco-system intact.
As part of the Lakshadweep administration's coral reef management action plan, a three-day national seminar on status and protection of coral reefs is being held from Wednesday at Kadmat Island in Lakshadweep.
Up to 70 per cent of the world's coral reefs are in danger of being destroyed in the next 20 to 40 years if destruction continues at the resent rate, according to a World Coral Reef Alliancean assessment.
Exports of marine products by some of the approved Indian fishery units to the European Union have already commenced and the number of such units will go up and the quantum of exports will also be augumented, the commerce ministry has clarified.
A study released significantly underestimates the price tag for maintaining the safety of the nation's 95,000 dams, a Stanford professor Martin McCann suggests. In its 1998 report card on the nation's infrastructure, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) estimates that it will take $1 billion to rehabilitate the 2,100 …
On March 14, 1998 the International Day of Action Against Dams and for Rivers, Water and Life will see demonstrations in downtown San Francisco to protest two destructive dams: the Ralco Dam in Chile and the Three Gorges Dam in China.
The Vizhingam Research Division of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Insitutue (CMFRI) has developed a new farming procedure for multi-crop system for cultivating pearls, mussels, dinifishes, shellfishes and other organisams in shallow sea bottom using cages especially designed and developed for the purpose.
sea fish landings in Kerala have fallen by nearly 45 per cent as compared to the last year, says Joseph Kalappurakkal, president, All-Kerala Mechanised Boat Operators' Association. Marine scientists have blamed rising global temperature and ruptures in polar ozone layer for the decreasing fish resources. A report on climate change …
After nearly half a century of breakneck urban growth, the West Coast was given a bill, of sorts, by the Federal Government. Federal officials announced that wild Pacific salmon are nearly extinct and put major areas on notice that millions of people are likely to face disruptions and higher living …
The Clinton Administration proposed strong new protections for endangered salmon, measures designed to save four species from extinction that could require wide-ranging curbs on development in major cities of the Pacific Northwest. The National Marine Fisheries Service announced plans to designate 13 populations of northwestern salmon and trout as "endangered" …
"Fish farming is getting popular among rural masses and unemployed youths in Punjab . It not only provides employme opportunities in the rural sector but is also an additional source of income to the village panchayats. " said Dr Rattan Singh, Animal Husbandary and Fisheries Minister, Punjab while inspecting fish …
The Kerala's exclusive organic 'pokkali' shrimp culture is slowly disappearing with the 'pokkali' shrimp farmers facing a cash crunch. This is not because of government promotion of aquaculture or the international dispute bestowed on Kerala prawns, inhibiting export of marine products. The 'pokkali' farmers say this has happened because of …
EU puts India in 'restricted' list: The European Union has placed India in the restricted list of countries for sourcing marine products, allowing its member-countries to impose specific import conditions from July 1. India has been placed along with 26 countries, including Bangladesh, Cuba, Maldives, Mexico, China, Poland, Panama and …
China's rich marine resources are expected to provide the country with 500 billion yuan worth of products by the year 2000. China's marine industry grew at an average annual rate of 25 per cent in recent years.
The entire National Fisheries Board of Papua New Guinea was suspended yesterday. Prime Minister Bill Skate has ordered an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the appointment of the board's deputy chairman, Israel Edoni as executive director of a private fishing company which planned to develop a multi-million kina tuna cannery …
The ban on the illegal trafficking of hazardous waste from developed to developing countries, adopted by more than 100 countries worldwide, has been defied by a few powerful parties who are out to make "easy and dirty money". Bakary Kante, president of the Third Meeting of the Conference of the …
Shrimp farming business is not such an evil as it is made out to be, according to a recent ICAR -sponsored (Indian Council For Agricultural Research) study. Contrary to the governmental policy directions, in practice, aquaculture has neither messed up the salinity of land nor encouraged large-scale straying from agriculture, …
The number of people fishing worldwide has more than doubled since 1970, according to a new survey published by the UN Food And Agriculture Organization (FAO). According to FAO's findings, around 85 per cent of the world's fishes are concentrated in Asia, the largest number in China.
The Japanese government plans to propose the resumption of talks in its fishing dispute with South Korea during the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) to be held in April 2-4 in London.
