PARADIP: Tension mounted at Sandhkuda area over eviction of 445 families from the slum area for construction of sea surge protection wall and laying of pipeline of oil refinery project of IOC.

In the review meeting held last week, State Chief Secretary Bijya Pattnaik directed the district administration to evict these families at the earliest to make way for laying of pipeline for oil refinery

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Work on a model fishing village scheme started with an outlay of Rs.200 crore in the current financial year will be completed within five years, Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac has said.

In his budget speech in the Assembly on Thursday, Dr.

Thiruvananthapuram: The National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) and the Kerala Swatantra Matsya Thozhilali Federation (KSMTF) have decided to launch a nation-wide agitation from February 25 in protest against some of the

PARADIP: Leakage of acid water from the Paradeep Phosphates Limited (PPL) pipelines has posed a threat to the aquatic life affecting the livelihood of over 500 fishermen here.

Sri Lanka's Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Ministry has launched a new insurance scheme for fisher families.

Indira Gandhi

New CRZ notification sparks off fears, upsets fisherfolk
MUMBAI: The new Coastal Zone Regulation (CRZ) 2011 which has opened up construction along the sea has sparked off fears of Mumbai being ringed with high rises and mutating into a

In a meeting held on Tuesday, fishermen and environmentalists strongly opposed the government proposal to relocate 1,356 slum tenements and evict more than 3,000 hutments in Srinivasapuram to create a 15-acre park near Adyar Creek.

They also objected to the development of a 45-lakh square-feet commercial hub which includes theatres and hotels at Foreshore Estate.

If forests belong to the forest-dwellers, then the coastal areas should belong to the fishing community.

Say the MoEF has not kept its word on provisions of Act
Fish workers warn of agitation