The campaign to save coastal areas from the stranglehold of aquaculture has received a shot in the arm with a recent Supreme Court order, passed on August 24, directing all coastal states

AQUACULTURE, once eulogised as a trouble-free money-spinner, is now causing sleepless nights for its promoters. Last year, a mysterious viral disease, nick- named "white spot", had swept

Reacting to the report filed recently in the Supreme Court by the Pune-based National Environmental Engineering Institute, the Aquaculture Foundation of India (AFI) has decided to file a counter

Aggressive shrimp farming is slowly breaking down the last ecological barrier against tidal waves and cyclonic gales in coastal Andhra Pradesh. Rapacious aquafarmers are marauding the rich mangroves

The Union agriculture ministry has finally woken up to the adverse environmental impact of the mushrooming of aquaculture projects in the country. A panel of experts has been constituted under the

Is something wrong with the fish species around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands? So would it seem, going by a recent decision of the environment and fisheries departments of the island to cultivate