Report filed by the District Collector, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh regarding pollution and encroachment of Kolleru lake. A news item published in Enadu newspaper, January 23, 2024 said that illegal fish ponds were being dug in Kolleru lake and due to these illegal fish ponds, the Kolleru lake is being polluted. …
CLEAN AND SAFE: Cashing in on the growing requirement for clean water, the Pune-based Thermax Ltd is setting up a joint venture company with Culligan Water Technologies Ltd of the US. The new venture - Thermax Culligan Water Technologies Ltd - will provide products and services for quality water in …
Aqua farmers in the country are oscillating between despair and hope. A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court (SC) dashed their hopes when it dismissed petitions seeking a review of its December 1996 judgement ordering closure of aqua farms in the coastal zone. Owners of over 2,000 aqua farms as …
Taking note of the pollution caused by aqua farms, the SC has ordered their closure, sparing those using traditional methods. As per the court's ruling, all shrimp and prawn farms within 500 m of the coast, on nearly 45,400 ha of ecologically fragile land, have to wind up operations by …
largescale shrimp farmers on the Indian coasts have become a wiser lot. The much-hyped "semi-intensive' mode of aquaculture has become a dirty term. Lesser stock, lesser profit
Farming in desert, and that too fish farming, would seem an impossible task to most. But a team of enterprising farmers led by Yitzhak Levy has developed a super intensive technique to produce yields which are not only profitable but also much higher than those of fish ponds in favourable …
FOR hundreds of shrimp farmers facing unemployment and starvation due to the outbreak of a deadly shrimp disease, there is still some hope. According to experts of the Marine Products Exports Development Authority in Andhra Pradesh, a two-pronged strategy used by the fish-farmers of Thailand and Ecuador to revive shrimp …
"IF you give a person a fish, he will have food for one day. But if you teach him to fish, he will have food for the rest of his life." This ancient Chinese proverb serves as the motto for a group called Tear Fund - a UK-based NGO. The …
SANE counsel seems to have finally prevailed upon the judiciary arbitrating on culturing exotic fish in the Andaman & Nicobar (A&N;) islands, It all began when the island administration granted a licence nearly one and half years ago, to an entrepreneur organisation called Lakshadweep Shilpi Aquaculture Ltd to introduce two …
The campaign to save coastal areas from the stranglehold of aquaculture has received a shot in the arm with a recent Supreme Court order, passed on August 24, directing all coastal states and union territories not to issue long- term licences or permissions for Guidelines have also been by the …
AQUACULTURE, once eulogised as a trouble-free money-spinner, is now causing sleepless nights for its promoters. Last year, a mysterious viral disease, nick- named "white spot", had swept Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, decimating a large part of the cultured shrimp crop. After ravaging the industry in West Bengal, the …
Reacting to the report filed recently in the Supreme Court by the Pune-based National Environmental Engineering Institute, the Aquaculture Foundation of India (AFI) has decided to file a counter petition in the Court before the case on banning the aquaculture industry in the country comes up for hearing on August …
Aggressive shrimp farming is slowly breaking down the last ecological barrier against tidal waves and cyclonic gales in coastal Andhra Pradesh. Rapacious aquafarmers are marauding the rich mangroves for farming shrimp. The bunds and embankments they illegally set up are destroying these forests all along the coasts by the East …
THIRTY per cent of the country's net prawn yield was "eaten up" by a suspected viral disease in coastal Andhra Pradesh's (AP) aquaculture belt. An entire crop of black tiger prawns was devastated by what some experts suspect was an invasion of the infectious haemotopoetic hypodermal necrosis (IHH-NV) virus in …
The Union agriculture ministry has finally woken up to the adverse environmental impact of the mushrooming of aquaculture projects in the country. A panel of experts has been constituted under the aegis of the Central Board of Fisheries to draft suitable guidelines of aquaculture management. According to R N Trikha …
March 24, 1994. 3 pm. Basappa Bovi of Guttur village of Harihar taluka in Karnataka, who grows watermelons on the banks of the Tungabhadra, was walking down the riverside when a horrifying sight stopped him dead in his tracks. A sea of fish -- most dead, some gasping for breath …
In 1985, the Transnational Centre, a social action group, took the matter of industrial effluents polluting the Tungabhadra to the Karnataka High Court. The organisation detailed the various changes that polluting effluents set in motion in a river. The petition explains that when waste is dumped into a river, the …
In March, 1992, the District Committee for Science and Technology, Dharwad, an independent body set up by the state government, sent a team of scientists to take water samples from the Tungabhadra and examine the people of villages located along the banks of the river. Following are the main points …
What is the Indian marine fishery scenario? Total catch is increasing. But the economically important species - mainly prawns, oysters and mackerels - which account for 50 per cent of the total export output, are stagnating. Why has the output declined? The main reason is over-exploitation of prawn. For instance, …
Is something wrong with the fish species around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands? So would it seem, going by a recent decision of the environment and fisheries departments of the island to cultivate European bass imported from Denmark in marine cages in the coastal waters. The decision was taken reportedly …
EVEN as J R D Tata, the grand old man of Tata Sons Ltd, called upon people to support the shrimp-farm project at Chilika the Union forests and environment minister Kamal Nath nominated scientists D K Biswas, Rajni Warrior and C L Trisal to assess the impact of Chilika Aquatic …
