Every rupee spent on the National Monsoon Mission (NMM) and on augmenting high-performance computing used for weather modelling has returned ₹50 in economic benefits to poor farmers and fishing families, a report said. The report, released by the New Delhi-based National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), showed that ₹551-crore …
PUDUCHERRY: The Joint Action Committee of Puducherry State Fishermen Organisations submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister V. Vaithilingam on Wednesday, urging him to suggest the withdrawal of the proposed Marine Fisheries (Regulation and Management Act) to the Union government. The proposed Act has been described in the memorandum as
THE PMK and VCK on Tuesday urged the Centre to withdraw the Marine Fisheries (Regulation and Management) Bill. Strongly condemning the Bill, PMK founder S Ramadoss, in a statement here, said the Centre should give up any move to amend certain clauses and pass it in Parliament. ```s the Bill …
The fishers of the Indonesian island village of Lamalera have an age-old tradition of whaling that mixes social, cultural and economic practices to sustain livelihoods.
Kalawati Eknath Mangela and Parvati Bai Somna do not consider themselves fisherwomen any mo re. Every time they cast nets in the Arabian Sea, off the Tadgam beach in Valsad district of Gujarat, all they catch is garbage.
The committee set up to review the Coastal Management Zone (CMZ) notification has recommended the proposed law be allowed to lapse. The panel chaired by scientist M S Swaminathan suggested the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification of 1991 be strengthened instead. Any proposed legislation should take into account the problem …
Report of the Expert Committee on draft CMZ notification chaired by M S Swaminathan submitted to Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh. Recommendations of this committee have been accepted and CMZ 2008 Notification, 2008 lapses on July 22, 2009. Report of the Expert Committee on the draft …
State promises free rations to jobless workers during seasonal ban mechanized boats stopped trawling the coastal waters of Kerala from June 15 following an annual ban imposed by the state till July 31 to protect fish stocks that spawn during this period. For once, the 4,000-odd trawler owners and workers …
Gaining access to the territorial waters of many developing countries has been a goal of expanding global capital in recent years. It comes in different forms and under different names but with the single objective of extracting profits for big business. The European Union (EU) is at the forefront of …
An innate knowledge of astronomy among the traditional fi shers of the southwest coast of India has, for generations, helped them in their fi shing activities.
Galicia, in the northwest of Spain, has initiated a bottom-up implementation and shared governance scheme for marine protected areas for small-scale fisheries management.
Every day hundreds of unlicensed fishing vessels enter African waters and trawl for shrimp, sardines, tuna, and mackerel. According to a study commissioned by the UK
Kappaphycus Alvarezii is a source of livelihood in the Gulf of Mannar region, but with speculation that it might be bio-invasive, the onus lies with the Government of TamilNadu to strike the right balance.
A marine protected area (mpa) is any coastal or marine area in which certain activities are regulated to conserve natural resources, biodiversity, and historical and cultural features. International treaty, Convention on Biological Diversity, defines an mpa as
The paper attempts to study the Indigenous Technical Knowledge of the fisher folk of fishing villages, Maruvakkad and Mallipuram belonging to Chellanam and Elankunnapuzha Panchayats, respectively of Palluruthy and Vypeen Block, Ernakulam. The Traditional knowledge and proverbs pertaining to the fishing community of these villages were collected and the scientific …
A workshop on marine protected areas in India suggested ways to achieve livelihood-sensitive conservation and management of coastal and fisheries resources.
Two-way radio to give disaster warning along 480 km Orissa coast ABOUT 300,000 fishermen living along the coast in Orissa will benefit from very high frequency (vhf) wireless radio sets to be set up in their villages starting April. These devices will keep them updated on cyclone warnings issued by …
