Report by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board to the National Green Tribunal dated March 9, 2023. Report of the Joint Committee appointed by the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Original Application No. 592/2022 with respect to the petition filed by All Traditional River Fishermen Association, Karnataka. The …
How did you come in conflict with the paramilitary Rangers? It started in 1977, when the Rangers were deployed at the border along the coastal belt of district Badin in Sindh. They gradually took control of all water resources in the area, and an exploitative contract system evolved. Local fisherfolk …
Another worthy cause has been lost to the number game. Almost 15 million fishworkers of the world suffered a blow when the 93rd annual conference of the International Labour Organisation (ilo) did not adopt a proposed Work in Fishing Convention (wfc) for the lack of a single vote that could …
Aggressively claiming its right over its natural resources post tsunami, Indonesia recently adopted a new law that requires all foreign fishing vessels to give 70 per cent of their catch to the domestic processing industry. These vessels also have to ensure that at least 40 per cent of the crew …
The lagoon city began as a locality of fisherfolk in the fifth century AD. It seems safe to assume the fisherfolk created the system of storing rainwater. As the city acquired eminence and power, it only invested more time and money in maintaining this system. Until now, that is. Town …
In all likelihood, it was ordinary fisherfolk that created the extraordinary water harvesting system of Venice. Islands of the lagoon were densely populated
A long-standing dispute over losses faced by Malaysian fisherfolk due to land reclamation activities by Singapore near the international waterway dividing the two nations has ended. In a deal struck on April 26, 2005, Singapore agreed to pay us$98,410 to Malaysia as compensation for the fisherfolk; the compensation for each …
The government seems to have learnt its lesson from the acute difficulty it faced in assessing the true extent of post-tsunami damage to the country's fishing community. It initiated The National Marine Fisheries Census-2005 on April 15, 2005 to update the database on fisherfolk population and help establish an efficient …
Kenya, which has been trying to develop its fishing industry, recently cracked down on illegal fishing in Homa Bay and Rachuonyo districts, where small-scale commercial fishing is rampant. Following a court order, Kenya's Department of Fisheries destroyed prohibited fishing gear worth us $7,100, including 26 mosquito nets, 15 beach seines …
District hospital, Nagapattinam is just two kilometres (km) from the Bay of Bengal. On December 26, 2004, when the tsunami struck, the hospital's paediatric ward was swept away; there were no survivors. This hospital was our first call as volunteers in relief operations coordinated by the Chennai-based non-governmental organisation, Suyam: …
www.keralafishworkers.org The world is getting serious about its dwindling marine resources. There is a large amount of frightening data on it. But hardly do these touch the fisherfolk
pakistani fisherfolk have launched a movement to pressure the government to solve their problems, particulary those linked with Pakistani Rangers. The Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (pff), which represents the country's three million fisherfolk, announced some of its protest plans at a meeting in Ibrahim Haidery, a coastal village of Karachi housing …
An acute crisis has hit farmers and fisherfolk in Ecuador's Manabi province, around the us military's Manta air force base. The latter got to use the area for 10 years in 1999 to control drug trafficking. But security measures Ecuador enforced to protect us soldiers are proving too expensive for …
Fisherfolk of Pakistan's Sindh province have refused to hand over their catch to paramilitary force Rangers from the World Fisheries Day on November 21. The Rangers have been posted in Sindh's Badin district to keep vigil on the border with India. But the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) alleges that they …
The Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) and the Save Coast Action Committee, Badin, recently organised a token one-day hunger strike in front of Karachi Press Club to protest the loss of livelihood and ecological harm caused by mega drainage projects like the Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD) project and the National …
the Orissa government has decided to promote prawn culture in seven coastal districts of the state. This move has the potential for inducing a bitter clash between big farmers and traditional fisherfolk, if undertaken without a foolproof blueprint. Under the proposed expansion, the government aims to generate Rs 2,000 crore …
the talks between India and Pakistan on Sir Creek, which ended on August 7, 2004, remained inconclusive, disappointing fisherfolk and peace activists. The creek, a small strip of water along the Rann of Kachch (in India) and Sindh (in Pakistan), is at the centre of a 22-year-old dispute between the …
even as conservationists celebrate the mass nesting of about 2 lakh endangered Olive Ridley turtles on the Orissa coast, over 1 lakh traditional fisherfolk in the six coastal districts of the state face an uncertain future. This is because the central empowered committee (cec), constituted by the Supreme Court (sc), …
The impending Lok Sabha and state assembly polls have brought a brief respite to Orissa's 2 lakh-odd traditional fisherfolk who eke a living off Chilika lake. For, electoral compulsions have forced political parties to shelve the controversial Chilika Fishing Regulatory Bill, 2002, which seeks to grant 30 per cent fishing …
