Ahmedabad: City-based Centre for Environment Education (CEE) commissioned by Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) will be organising public consultations with fishermen and local communities to strengthen Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) at Rajkot on Monday.

Centre for Environment Education Bangalore and College of Fisheries Mangalore will organise a public consultation with the fisher folks and local community on Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) at College of Fisheries on February 13 from 10 am to 1 pm.

V. Sajeev Kumar

The Kerala State Fishing Boat Operators Association has protested against the proposed Marine Fisheries (Regulation and Management) Act 2009, saying that it contains

KOCHI:

Expressing views: A fisherman speaking at a public consultation in Puducherry on Friday.

G Saravanan

The Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Ministry will embark on constructing massive infrastructure development projects in the Southern province.

As an initial project the Fisheries harbour in Devinuwara, Matara, will be developed with required facilities and the entire project will cost Rs. 250 million, the Ministry said.

The fisherfolk from Sompeta expressed their protest against the proposed thermal power plant (2,640 MW) to be set up by the NCC group in the district at a meeting presided over by the Joint Collector, Mr E. Sridhar.

Mumbai: Mumbaikars may have to fight it out to get the mangrove wetland centre, proposed nearly two years ago on 452 hectares of marshland along the Eastern Express Highway at Bhandup.

Announced on March 3, 2008, by then state forests minister Baban Pachpute, the proposal has since been wrapped in red tape.