Western Provincial Council Minister of Fisheries, Road Development and Tourism, Nimal Lanza is to request President Mahinda Rajapaksa to consider removing fishing restrictions now imposed in the Western Province and allow fishermen to go out to sea to fish.

Pakistan and China signed on Monday a memorandum of understanding to promote cooperation in development of river fisheries and related technologies.

President Asif Ali Zardari attended the ceremony for the signing of the memorandum between the Indus River Fresh Water Fisheries Research Institute and Pearl River Fishery Research Institute of Guangzhou.

Sindh Minster for Irrigation Murad Ali S

When government scientists went looking for mercury contamination in fish in 291 streams around the nation, they found it in every fish they tested, the Interior Department said, even in isolated rural waterways.

Once found in plenty in the clear river waters of Western Ghats in Karnataka, ''Haragi Meenu,'' a fish species with the potential to control aquatic weeds has been successfully bred at the city based Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) after five years of trials.

health The Wnt pathway Scientists zeroed in on the gene responsible for multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the body

More than 350 new species, including a flying frog and the world's smallest deer species, have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas in the last decade, according to the WWF.

The eastern Himalayas, the region which spans Bhutan and Northeast India, north Burma, Nepal and southern parts of Tibet Autonomous Region in China, faces an alarming threat from climate change.

Florida wildlife officials are considering a ban on possessing several large, nonnative reptile species after a pet Burmese python killed a 2-year-old girl last month. Col. Julie Jones, director of law enforcement for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, discussed that option with Gov.

Marine scientists from California are venturing this week to the middle of the North Pacific for a study of plastic debris accumulating across hundreds of miles (km) of open sea dubbed the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch."