Mumbai: The state fisheries department has set up a committee to study the effects of industrial pollution on fish in Maharashtra’s coastal waters.

In a government resolution, the fisheries department has directed the study of waters at creeks, estuaries and the sea to ascertain the effect of pollution on fish and how it has impacted the livelihood of the fishing community.

Residents of Subdolem and Cordem areas in the sleepy village of Barcem are again up in arms over what they call as environmental pollution caused by a fish meal plant in the locality.

Despite abundant freshwater aquaculture resources in the state, Odisha depending on Andhra Pradesh to meet its demand for fish is really unfortunate, said experts at a workshop organized at the Cen

Kendrapada: The annual fishing ban comes into effect at Gahirmatha marine sanctuary and Rushikulya beach from Friday. It will be in force till May 31.

If National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) has its way, fishermen along the Tamil Nadu coast can sail just a few kilometres into the sea once in a few months and return with a catch of 10 ton

A seven-month ban on fishing was on Thursday clamped from November 1 by the Odisha Government within 20 km from the river mouths of Dhamara, Devi and Rusikulya in Gamjam district for protecting nes

Almost all wild caught marine fish for the aquarium trade will die within a year of capture, according to WWF.

Four years of scientific expeditions have found previously unknown animals and plants in world's largest tropical rainforest

Preparing a health card for an ecosystem may sound a strange concept. However, an exercise to make one for Gujarat's famous Marine National Park and Gulf of Kutch is currently underway.

THRISSUR: The controversial Nitta Gelatin India Limited, a company which makes gelatin for medicinal purposes, has stalled its operation in Chalakudy after the water it takes from Chalakudy river g