an ambitious aquaculture project is on the anvil at Nayachar in Haldia, West Bengal. The state government hopes that the project will generate employment opportunities for the locals and give a

A unique aquaculture-agriculture farming system has been developed by farmers at the Fulpur Thana in Mymensingh district of Bangladesh. They have developed this technique through their age-old

The Orissa state government and the high court assume different postures even as the local fisherfolk continue to suffer

Four fisherfolks were killed in police firing in Chilka Lake when they were protesting against prawn farming in the lake on May 29

Shrimp farms in Latin America produce a quarter of the three million tonnes of shrimp consumed worldwide each year. Consequently, shrimp farmers are destroying the mangrove forests to make shrimp

Shrimp farming is not as bad as earlier thought, says a study sponsored by the Indian Council for Agricultural Research. Aquaculture has neither increased the salinity of land nor caused large-scale

People from fishing communities across the world are getting organised to fight for their rights

seabass , a delicious table fish, popularly known as koduva in Tamil and bhetki in Bengali, has been successfully bred in the country by the Central Institute of Brackishwater