The mucky sediment below fish farms usually teems with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The presence of such bacteria is a cause of increasing concern because resistance can limit the ability to fight diseases, but it is also not that surprising: pisciculturalists have a long history of dosing fish they are breeding and …
The Indian Fisheries Association has decided to honour the Department of Fisheries Assam with Fisheries Development Award 2009-10 for excellence in promoting pisciculture. The award will be conferred on December 29 in Mumbai as part of the 20th All India Zoological Congress. The association has invited State Fisheries Minister Noor …
The government today issued a written statement saying the land allotted to an educational foundation off EM Bypass was not recorded as a fishery as claimed by the fisheries minister yesterday.
State Minister for Urban Development Dinesh Prasad Gowala recently urged the farmers of Cachar district to seek assistance from the Agriculture and Irrigation departments in view of the prevailing drought-like situation. At a district-level meeting at Silchar, Gowala to said that the Agriculture and Irrigation departments should jointly face the …
Villagers from Manchanabele and Harobande in Chikkaballapur taluk have alleged that the Fisheries Department officials permitted pisciculture of the cannibalistic and poisonous fish, African black cat, in the tanks near Harobande. They staged a protest demanding closure of fish farms with this particular variety of fish, in the region. They …
Yoginder K. Alagh Posted: Mar 10, 2009 at 0058 hrs IST In addition to the natural uncertainty around agricultural production, there is the policy uncertainty created by flip-flop stories on agriculture. During the last six months,
ONTHESPOT - NRS HOSPITAL The pond at NRS; (above) litter dumped on the bank. Pictures by Bishwarup Dutta To battle the mosquito menace on its premises, Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital (NRS) will use its 1.3-acre pond for pisciculture. The NRS authorities had written to the Calcutta Municipal …
There is no reason why Assam needs to drive out scarce resources of the State to import a huge scale of fish worth around Rs 1000 crore a year in spite of its abundant scope of pisciculture with numerous rivers, ponds, beels and reservoirs. If these sources are properly utilised …
The ongoing comprehensive initiatives under the guidance of Bangladesh army have ushered in a fresh hope to eradicate the century-old seasonal Monga by making the distressed people economically self-reliant in greater Rangpur. The initiatives include short-duration BRRI Dhan-33 variety T-Aman paddy farming, pisciculture in the canal of the Teesta Barrage …
The tribals est the sleepy village of Kalyandi in Jharkhand depend on fish farming for living. However, till last year, the hectic activity would come to a grinding halt in May. The reason: non-availability of water in the ponds. This May, fish farming is on in full swing and the …
If you thought utilising agricultural land - khazans - for fish farming is bad. Hold your breath... It may not be long before it is officially allowed. In order to facilitate the use of khazan land for pisciculture purpose, the Fisheries Department has recommended amendment to the Land Revenue Act. …
The current study is on East Calcutta Wetland (ECW) which is a model for multi-use resource recovery system with activities like pisciculture and agriculture. The entire city's soluble waste is disposed into the raw sewage canals which finally drains into the shallow, flat bottom fish ponds called Bheri. These sewage …
Hydropower projects leads to the transformation of ecosystems by the creation of reservoirs and/or through important modifications to flow regimes. The nature and magnitude of impacts is highly site specific, vary significantly from one project to another and vary according to the biotopes in which projects are situated.
East Calcutta Wetland (ECW) is an example of wise use of cities solid and liquid waste through integrated resource recovery, mainly for pisciculture, vegetable as well as paddy cultivation and manure production. Amaranthus caudatus, Amaranthus blithum and Spinacia oleracea grown at ECW were analyzed for their accumulation of elements using …
