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 …
THIS struggle is for the future: that of ours and the fish," the late Joyachen Antony, leader of traditional fisherfolk of Kerala, had said way back in 1981, on the fifth day of his nirahara satyagraha (hunger strike) demanding that monsoon trawling be banned in the state, Uncontrolled trawling for …
GENERAL PRINCIPLES • Resource users should conserve ecosystems • Fisheries management is for present and future generations • States should protect the rights of fisherfolks, ensuring secure and just livelihood and involve them In policy formulation • There should be transparency in the decisionmaking processes THEMATIC ARTICLES • Fisheries management …
The scenario in the fishing industry is alarming. The state of straddling fish stocks is a global disasaster and overfishing is a major problem. The structure of the fishing industry has something to do with this. Japan takes in the world's largest haul - twice as much as China. But …
MEMBERS of the Samahang Mangangwil 79 (Sm79), or the Hook and Line Fishers'Organisation - a fisherfoWs organisation in San Diego, Philippines, did not attend the recent UN Conference on Straddling Stocks and Highly Migratory Species. Nor have they heard about the drama enacted between Canada and Spain off Newfoundland in …
Indian fisherfolk are on the warpath once again, targeting joint venture trawling in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The National Fisheries Action Committee Against Joint Venture trawling (NFACAJV), an umbrella body of various fishing communities, has given the call for a week-long strike and the blocking of all fishing vessels …
For the Chinese fish- erfolk operating in certain areas of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, it will be another 2-month wait before they can reach for their nets, as the ban on fishing has been extended by the min- istry of agriculture. The ban, which was in …
The voyage towards consensus building on ocean resources has always been protracted. Take the 3rd United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) which began in 1972. It took nearly 10 years to reach consensus on the single negotiating text. On the appointed date -- 10 December 1982 …
Nonsense! most people said, when they heard that the breweries at Pozhiyoor are going to shut down. It seemed an impossibility, for the town had earned notoreity as Kerala's illicit-liqour Capital. However, when they actually did so 3 years ago, a large question opened up : how to survive? The …
EXPERIMENTS are underway off the Nellore coastline in Andhra Pradesh to create artificial coral reefs which can act as natural breeding grounds for aquatic life. They are being conducted by Jagriti, a Nellore-based voluntary organisation working for the upliftment of fisherfolk.The 175 km Nellore coastline has been almost taken over …
AS THE May 7 deadline for the review of the Deep Sea Fishing (DSF) policy by the P Murari committee drew closer, the leaders of India's 80 lakh-strong traditional fishing community built up a tempest against megascale joint venture DSF projects. Sit-ins and rallies were held from Paradip to Delhi. …
Fisherpeople in 4 coastal fishing villages near Karachi are up in arms against the Pak government. The eye of the storm is a proposal to build an oil pipeline across the Gangiaro Creek which serves the entire coastal belt of Thatta up to Shah Bander and Keti Bander. They were …
Fisherfolk in the Hooghly are enjoying boom time, with the Farakka Barrage having barred highly valued Hilsa from moving upstream, where procurement has fallen drastically. The average annual catch at Allahabad, which stood at 19.9 tonnes between 1958 and 1972, barely touches 1 tonne now. Over the same time-span, the …
The country's deep sea fishing policy has run into troubled waters. Acceding to protests by fisherfolk against forays by multinational companies into the Indian seas, the government has frozen the issuing of new licences to foreign companies pending a review of the policy, which was announced in 1991. The decision …
Fisherfolk in the Maldives are worried that a recent govetnment decision to allow foreign vessels to operate 120-68 km from the countrys shoreline will rob them of tliew livelihood, as hi-jech ships capable of sinking thousands of fishing lines into the ocean at one time will eat up the fish …
Indian fisherfolk are up in arms against the foreign trawlers that have been permitted to fish in India's coastal waters by the Indian government. The leaders of fisherfolk associations from 9 maritime states have threatened to go on an indefinite strike from November 23 and prevent foreign fishing trawlers from …
WITH 6,000 kms of coastline and innumerable rivers, lagoons, lakes, reservoirs and ponds, India's fisherfolk population is one of the largest in the world. Exceeding 7 million, one-third of this populace depends on marine fishing while the rest subsist on a variety of inland water bodies. Usually very poor, these …
Indian fisherfolk will soon be aided by an indigenously developed satellite that will direct them to fertile fishing spots. The Rs 70 crore Oceansat satellite, being designed by scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation, will enhance the costly facilities currently provided by two US satellites. "Oceansat will not only …
A Supreme Court ruling in November upheld the rights of "marginalised" traditional fisherfolk in Kerala, but they continued clashing with mechanised vessel operators. A division bench of the Supreme Court ratified the Kerala government's 1984 ban order against purse seine fishing (fishing with large, mechanised nets) upto 22.222 km from …
FREEING a river from bondage might seem preposterous. But that is exactly what the Ganga Mukti Andolan (GMA) set out to do in 1982 in Bihar's Bhagalpur district by mobilising fisherfolk, peasants and boatpersons against the infamous panidari -- the exclusive rights of zamindars (landowners) to fish and run boats …
