Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
The coastal marine environment provides enormous value in fishery and other products and in ecosystem services including coastal protection, water purification, and appropriate locations for ports, harbors, urban centers, tourist destinations, and numerous recreational pursuits. Current management practices are ineffective and to continue them will endanger coastal economies and ecosystems …
The shrimp farmers in the country, especially in Andhra Pradesh, should not cultivate, or culture P. Monodon alone as there is a shift in the international market, and they should take up culture of L.Vannamei as well on a large scale, according to Mr L. Sa-tyanarayana, the President of the …
A giant shrimp living on Australia's Great Barrier Reef can see a world beyond the rainbow that is invisible to other animals, scientists said on Wednesday. Mantis shrimps, dubbed "thumb splitters' by divers because of their vicious claws, have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom, capable of seeing …
A paper and pulp mill, operating in southern Chile, has pitted a group of fisherfolk against its neighbours and is trying to get away by installing a controversial pipeline to dump waste water from its mill into the Pacific ocean. In the past few weeks the groups in Mehuin and …
What may become a sustainable solution to the world fishery crisis is being experimented by scientists in the US. Completely cultured indoor marine fish may become the answer to the estimates of the wipe out of edible marine fish from the seas by 2048. Scientists at the Biotechnology Institute of …
Fisheries form a major source of employment, income and livelihood for most of the people inhabiting the coastal region. Women in fisheries are in general labelled as imperceptible wokers as their contributions are not adequately apprehended and realized. Fishing in India is the main stay of men but women too …
Russia has suggested that Caspian nations impose a five-year ban on fishing for sturgeon, prized for caviar, to save the dwindling stocks from extinction. "We are ready to renounce sturgeon fishing, even for research purposes,' Andrei Krainy, head of the Russian State Fisheries said. The move comes after several international …
A sea of threats: Climate change abets them Oceans are highly dynamic, structured and complex systems; crucial for life on the planet. The vast resources in the oceans are not distributed evenly or randomly. For example, the largest share of marine biodiversity is found in the sea bed. Environmental conditions …
Lean times lie ahead for fishermen in California and Oregon. Last week, US regulators decided to cancel the entire salmon season for this year. The long-term prospects for the salmon themselves are unclear. In the long term, however, the future of the salmon, and the people that rely on them, …
It is now clear that fished populations can fluctuate more than unharvested stocks. However, it is not clear why. Here the authors distinguish among three major competing mechanisms for this phenomenon, by using the 50-year California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) larval fish record.
Fishing of natural populations increases the variability of fish abundance. A unique data set from the southern California Current has allowed an evaluation of three hypotheses for why that should be so.
EU Cuts Poland Cod Quota After Overfishing In 2007 LUXEMBOURG: April 15, 2008 LUXEMBOURG - European Union ministers agreed on Monday to reduce Poland's annual allowances over four years for fishing cod in the eastern Baltic Sea as pay back for busting the quota in 2007, officials said on Monday. …
To speed up membership talks with the eu, the Croatian government has agreed to suspend control over a no-fishing zone and allow eu nations to fish near its waters. Croatian prime minister, Ivo Sanader, told the parliament that the nation was faced with a stark choice
After exploiting Mauritania's waters for over a decade, the eu has renegotiated on a fishing deal with the West African nation nearly halving its catches. The move will hit Mauritania's national coffers. Fisheries is Mauritania's key sector of revenue. The eu pays
Climate exchange Unfair share of cause and effect Ecological damages are distributed more towards poor nations Human activities are changing ecosystems across the globe. Though many of the changes are for food security and economic development, their ecological damages are immense Six major ecological damages caused by human activities are: …
The EU is considering funding projects in North Africa and along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean in an effort to tackle rising pollution levels. The European Commission and European Investment Bank have been looking at the pollution hotspots which impact on the sea as a whole and are now …
An initial probe into the causes of the death of a large number of fish found on Sunday revealed that a high concentration of toxics in the backwaters of the Karachi harbour was responsible for the killing thousands of fish. The investigation was carried out by the National Institute of …
Thousands of fish found dead along seashore SHAFI BALOCH KARACHI -Thousands of fish of various kinds were found dead on Karachi seashore on Sunday. The local fishermen faced huge finical losses as people started taking the fish from the sea, which had already been declared unhygienic, The Nation learnt on …
A fish that would rather crawl into crevices than swim, and that may be able to see in the same way that humans do, could represent an entirely unknown family of fishes, says a University of Washington fish expert. The fish, sighted in Indonesian waters off Ambon Island, has tan- …
emerging catastrophe: Climate change is emerging as the latest threat to the world's fast-declining fish stocks, says a new report by UNEP. The report, In Dead Water, says climate change may slow down the global flow of ocean currents, which flush and clean continental shelves and are critical for maintaining …
