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 …
The documentary on the Onges tribe of the Little Andaman Island had an advantage that the panel discussion lacked. Sonali Dutta, the director, was showing rare footage. The panel discussion for most parts, on the other hand, was leaded with theoretical meanderings along known paths. Sonali's documentary gave the audience …
WHAT IS FORBIDDEN: Prawn culture within 1000 metres of Chilika. Non-traditional methods of fishing, including pen construction, selective stocking, external supplemental feeding with artificial feed and application of drugs and chemicals. Sub-lease for fishing in Chilika in identified ecosensitive belts, including areas that may be conserved for breeding and migration …
A revised law of the Thailand government banning the use of fishing gear during the peak breeding season cannot be enforced due to strong opposition from commercial fisherfolk, stated Dhammarong Prakobboon, the country's fisheries department chief. Studies by the department indicate that a ban on the use of fishing gear …
the Orissa coast, between Paradip and Jatadhar has been littered with thousands of dead Olive Ridley sea turtles. Dead turtles have also been found on the stretch between Harishpur and Devi river mouth, said Biswajit Mohanty, project coordinator of Operation Kachhapa, a conservation programme launched to save the turtles. For …
the killing of endangered Olive Ridley turtles continues unabated on the Orissa coast. According to field observers, almost 659 turtles have died on the coastal stretch at Gahirmatha during the last three months. In 1999, at least 20,000 turtles had died while swimming ashore. The number is likely to rise …
Environmentalists and fisherfolk in Thailand have asked the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation ( fao ) to hold talks with the Thai government regarding the use of pushnet trawlers, which have led to a massive destruction of marine life. The pushnet trawlers have destroyed seagrass and corals, which serve …
the end of the millennium meeting of turtle biologists in South Padre Island, Texas, usa , took stock of the status of sea turtles and found that all seven species are still surviving. However, what did dampen the spirits was the news that the mass nesting of Kemp's Ridley turtles …
Good days may be ahead for the Ugandan fish exporters. A new laboratory in Kampala will enable them to meet contamination testing standards as demanded by the European Union (eu). The eu had banned Ugandan fish imports in April this year. This seven-month-old ban has severely affected East African fish …
Four freighters, one already loaded with 107 containers of cargo for Singapore, have been bottled up in Thailand since small-scale fisherfolk blockaded Songkhla Bay. The fisherfolk are demanding an end to nocturnal anchovy fishing by boats equipped with powerful lights to attract the fish. Port director Wattanachai Ruanglertpanyakul, of Chao …
international authorities have sent "a clear message' to the illegal driftnet fishing industry by seizing two boats in the north Pacific, said Canadian officials. The two were among four vessels spotted by Canadian patrol aircraft in a joint operation with the us , Russia and China to stop the environmentally-damaging …
unemployment , poverty, lack of capital and lax enforcement of laws are to blame for the poisoning of fish in Lake Victoria, environmental experts in Kenya say. The practice, which led to a ban on fish imports from Lake Victoria by the European Union, has jeopardised the country's us $109,375 …
The enthusiasm among wildlife lovers and conservationists about the 270,000-odd Olive Ridley turtles that arrived at the Gahirmatha beach in Orissa may be short lived ( Down To Earth , Vol 7, No 21). According to the state wildlife department officials, over 25 per cent of the turtles' eggs have …
in late 1996, the us government imposed trade restrictions on import of shrimp and shrimp products on India, Pakistan, Thailand and Malaysia. This was done as a part of measures undertaken by the country to protect and conserve sea turtles, an endangered natural resource. This was based on the contention …
pollution and commercial fishing are ravaging marine resources in Kerala's coastal waters. Already many species such as the tuna and the prawn are on the decline. If the same trend continues, many of these may well vanish. "Marine fish species have been found with changes in their composition,' says John …
the Aral Sea, formerly the world's fourth-largest inland sea with an area of 65,000 sq km may not die after all ( Down To Earth, Vol 4, No 12). Kazakh fisherfolk believe that a 16-km-long dam built across Aral Sea, mainly separating Aral Sea Minor (northern part of the Sea) …
Why are fisherfolk vehemently opposed to foreign deep-sea fishing vessels? There are 25,000 deep-sea fishing vessels all over the world. Many of these are now partially or totally idle because they have depleted marine resources worldwide. How many of the 25,000 industrial fishing vessels are operating in India? There are …
In Audierne (Breton Cornwall in the west of France), a skipper explains, "Since a year, the crisis has deepened. The equipments cost more and mom but the fish prices have dropped." A fisherperson moans, "I have got eight kin of nets and this morning I only caught four monkfish." Rising …
THE shrimp: a tiny key to a giant treasure chest. A global market -- worth US $8,000 million, 20 per cent of the global seafood trade -- lay open to shrimp farmers from all along India's 7,000 km coastline. The golden egg is the tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) gourmandised the …
Intensive prawn monoculture has repeatedly seen epidemics wiping out entire crops, or drastically reducing production. In Taiwan, aquaculture has boomed since 1984 and production reached 100,000 tonnes by 1987 -- 21 per cent of Asia's cultured shrimps. The yield nosedived to 20,000 tonnes in 1988, 10,000 tonnes the following year …
Not very long ago, shrimp was plebeian grub. Oldtimers in the south still remember that it was but small courtesy for toddy sellers to give half-a-dozen shrimps free with a bottle of the best. Impoverished local labourers still enjoy the right to fish shrimp left over in any farm after …
