Fish

Mercury is one of the most dangerous environmental pollutants, both in its elemental form and in chemical combination. When mercury is released into the environment it gets transformed into methyl mercury through microbial action. The methylation of mercury is a key step in the entrance of mercury into food chains. This methyl mercury is mercury in its most pernicious form.

Publication Date:

01/02/2009

Source: Toxics Link

Tags:

Food Contamination, Food Adulteration, Food Additives, Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954, Fish, Health Effects, Mercury, FAO, WHO, West Bengal, Toxins

Fish sanctuaries at Hakaluki

A total of 13 fish sanctuaries have been established at the Hakaluki Haor to protect threatened fish and fish resources in the country.

Publication Date:

27/03/2008

Source: New Age (Bangladesh)

Tags:

Wetlands, Fish, Sanctuaries, Biodiversity, Bangladesh

Frozen fish cuts not kept at proper temperature in fish market: MFDA

Publication Date:

20/03/2008

Source: Haveeru Daily

Tags:

Fish, Health

Conservation Groups Sue Over Polar Bears

Three conservation groups sued the Department of the Interior on Monday for missing a deadline on a decision to list polar bears as threatened because of the loss of Arctic sea ice.

Publication Date:

11/03/2008

Source: New York Times (New York)

Tags:

Fish, Endangered Species, Wildlife

Giant fish caught off Nagai

Fishermen of Kallar near here on Wednesday returned on Thursday morning with a prize catch a huge fish weighing nearly a tonne. According to local fisher men, in local parlance, the fish is called

Publication Date:

07/03/2008

Source: New Indian Express (Chennai)

Tags:

Fish, Fisheries, Tamil Nadu

Agriculture

In short

waste proposal: Argentina will use alternatives to waste incineration. A government plan calls for a ban over incineration as a treatment and disposal technology, including use of waste as input to

Publication Date:

14/07/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Fish, Fisheries, Waste Incineration, Waste Treatment, UN, FAO, Argentina

Fisheries

ASDA to review monkfish ban

After keeping monkfish off its shelves for a month, the British supermarket chain asda has now agreed to review the ban. asda had imposed the ban and urged celebrity chefs to keep the fish off

Publication Date:

14/04/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Food Process Industry, Fish, Fisheries, Endangered Species

Water Pollution

Tannery effluent induced biochemical changes in the larvivorous fish, Gambusia Affinis

Tannery waste is one of the most complex and putrescible organic industrial wastes causing huge amount of water pollution. Through the excessive organic load present in tannery wastes the oxygen content of the waters is depleted, which leads to the death of fish and other aquatic animals. In India, Tamil Nadu is one of the largest exporters of leather.

Publication Date:

01/10/2005

Author(s): K. Revathi, Suman Gulati, Dawood Sharief

Source: Pollution Research

Vol:

24

Issue:

4

pp:

815

Tags:

Pollution, Water Pollution, Leather Industry, Fish, Tamil Nadu