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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Cleaning 'wet markets'
Singapore has finally found a way to clean up its "wet markets", the bazaars selling fresh meat, fish and poultry. They are named so because their floors are perpetually slippery with offal and
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Definitely fishy, this!
an unusual problem has arisen off the coasts of us . It has do with the clean-up of lakes in and around the country, to get rid of waste that has led to a depletion of a certain variety of
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ECUADOR
Angry fisherfolk of Galapagos Islands, 965 kilometres off the Ecuadorean mainland, recently lay seige to research stations of the Charles Darwin Foundation, the main promoter of conservation efforts
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A fishy problem
japan's whaling fleets recently set out for the Pacific Ocean on its second hunt of this year. Their targets are bryde, sperm and minke whales. Japan has under taken the hunting programme despite
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Shrinking stocks
Sleeping fisherfolk and idle trawlers at the Visakhapatnam harbour bear testimony to the fact that India's east coast is rapidly being deprived of its fish population. The average catch has
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Rough y patch
Conservationists in Tasmania, Australia, have locked horns with the fishing industry to protect the orange roughy fish species. The Humane Society International (hsi) has issued a call for
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BANGLADESH
The open water area in Bangladesh is estimated at 4.047 million ha, of which 2.833 million ha are floodplains. The deltaic environment of the nation has contributed much to the inland and marine
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SRI LANKA
Dikkowita Fisheries Harbour, Sri Lanka's international tuna project has been ditched by Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). The bank withdrew its proposed funding of us $50 million
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Wetland wars
CALCUTTA is famed worldwide for its sewage fisheries -- wetlands that use industrial and domestic sewage for fish cultivation. But the Mudially Fishermen's Cooperative Society needed a helping hand
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Fishing rights row
Goa trawler owners protest against fishing ban during monsoon proves to be a damp squib