Fish production in NE to be doubled by 2020
SHILLONG, Sept 11 – The Centre is planning to double the fish production in North-eastern region and aims at increasing its per capita availability to 15 kg by 2020. “We have a daunting task of achieving
Fisheries
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Catch constraints
The global fish catch now appears to have reached the upper limits of sustainability. More than one billion people, mostly in developing countries, depend on fish as a primary source of animal
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Treasure down under
A novel experiment in Gujarat undertakes the detection of soil microbial diversity
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Brazil
Woodcutters operating in the Apyterewa indigenous area in the Para state are luring local Parakana Indians into facilitating smuggling mahogany. Carlos Fausto, an expert from the National Museum of
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Unhealthy package
Reuters, the information agency, is considering legal action against the British government after the latter blocked a computerised prescription system to be marketed by the company. Healthplus, the
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Shipping nightmare
france is in the midst of another nuclear controversy. Barely four months after creating an international outrage by carrying out nuclear tests in the south Pacific waters, it is facing new
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Fishing trauma
The Tarun Bharat Sangh (tbs), together with the people of the villages around Akhari river in Alwar district, Rajasthan, has launched
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Saving steps
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
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Developed nations are not bothered about marine resources
Fifty five year old thomas kocherry , one of the founders of the National Fishworkers Forum a trade union network of 200,000 traditional fisherpeople has been its chairperson since 1983. Although he has worked for traditional fisherfolk since 197
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Louder is cheaper
TRUCK manufacturers in UK never had it so good. And all it took for their trucks to sell like never before were new EU guidelines on noise and emission requirements in commercial
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Backs to the wall
Kerala's backwaters are one of its most prized possessions. But they are fighting for survival today, with reclamation for the purposes of development and commerce increasingly choking them off