Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
Clocking a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 11.48 per cent in 2004-05 and 2010-11, Karnataka has emerged as the leading coastal State with the highest growth in fish production, according to a research and analysis released by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). Goa, …
MUMBAI: Scientists in a quiet neighbourhood in Versova are testing the waters to see if Mumbai can be turned into a Gold Coast of sorts. Every morning, they try to map out areas in the sea where fishermen might find more schools of fish that day. Along the coastline of …
Illegal fishing practices are posing serious threat to fish resources and aquatic biodiversity. Creation of artificial substrata, use of dynamites in shallow parts of seas and fishing during high tides in backwaters have been reported in the State, though such activities have been banned by law. Officials of the Fisheries …
A farmer-scientist meet was the highlight of the second day of the Asia-Pacific Aquaculture Conference 2011 being held here. Inaugurating the meet on the second day, chief executive officer of National Fisheries Development Board P Krishnaiah called upon the farmers to look for new technologies that are being developed in …
The United Nations, Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) recently released, the first global guideline for bycatch management and reduction of fishing discards which covers all types of bycatch including discards, that is, fish that are caught accidently and then thrown back into the sea either dead or dying. Unmanaged bycatch …
Fisheries Minister S.Sarma unveiling the digital system for forecasting potential fishing zones at Mariyanad. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Fisheries Minister S.Sarma has said that digital system for forecasting potential fishing zones will soon be set up all along the Kerala coast. He was inaugurating the facility, developed by the Kerala State Remote Sensing …
The Fisheries Research and Training Institute Manawan is providing free of cost research facilities to the students of Zoology Departments of various colleges and universities in the province. According to a departments spokesperson here on Thursday, Punjab Fisheries Director General Dr Muhammad Ayub while giving details in this regard said …
"Though the State has an abundance of rivers, ponds and beels, Assam is yet to attain self-sufficiency in fish production. Owing to a demand of nearly 2 lakh MT annually, the State has to import nearly 15 to 20 thousand MT annually from the neighbouring States to meet the demand.' …
Its enormous water resources notwithstanding, Assam continues to be a deficit State in fish production. This is a drawback that can be traced to inadequate planning and implementation. Traditionally, fishery has been among the most neglected sectors and over the years little has been done to tap its immense potential. …
Galle Chief Magistrate, Thamara Tennakoon fined Rs. 330,000 on three fishermen who were found guilty of fishing using dynamites. The three fishermen were K. Anil De Zoyza, M. Somaratne and D. Dharmasena. Each of them was fined Rs. 110,000. They were remanded after being arrested on January 14. The explosives …
Chandigarh, February 12 Emboldened by its previous success in pisciculture, the Haryana government is planning to bring 20,000 hectares of water area under pisciculture and to produce 90,000 tonnes of fish by stocking 4,000 lakh seed soon. An area of 200 hectares would be renovated under the National Fisheries Development …
Lagadia means boat fishing. Gill nets are used within 10 km of the shore to catch scad and Indian mackerel. A single trip, worked by two people yields around 8 kg of fish. Merchants operating in the settlements offer around Rs 50 per kg. The catch is iced immediately and …
Eye for the rare Slender loris, a nocturnal primate with huge eyes, is endemic to Sri Lanka and is one of the rarest and weirdest animals, which will be the focus of an ambitious conservation project
the Kerala government will soon file a review petition challenging a Supreme Court (sc) order issued on July 10, 2006, imposing a uniform ban on mechanised fishing in five states. The ban is applicable from June 10 to August 15 each year in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala. The …
When bad management and increasing demand for inland fish led to plummeting stocks, fishing villages around the Ashtamudi estuary in Kollam district, Kerala, have come up with their own solution. Fisherfolk, now earmark a certain area of the estuary to allow young fish to grow
for fisherfolk and traders in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, catching fish is child's play, thanks to harmful pesticides such as endosulfan. The fisherfolk contaminate the upper reaches of rivers such as the Teesta and the Jaldhaka with the organochlorine pesticide. This activity is carried out mainly around the Mainaguri …
The use of destructive fishing practices is wreaking havoc on aquatic resources in the Malakand river network in Pakistan. A survey conducted in Malakand and Swat districts revealed that 65 per cent of fishing in the region is done by dynamiting, and four per cent by using Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (ddt) and …
