FISHERFOLK in Alaska set up a floating picket line of about 100 fishing boats and other vessels, blocking tankers heading for Prince William Sound, for three days in August. They were protesting

A proposal to include the Calcutta wetlands in the list of waterbodies of national importance will protect it from real estate developers as well as facilitate funds for its conservation

Calendar of events in the Calcutta wetlands over the last century

SRI LANKA'S National Aquatic Resources Agency (NARA) has said there is no need to impose a total ban on dolphin catches, reports Mallika Wanigasundara. A NARA study shows that such a ban would

French demands backed by violent agitations for a ban on the entry of cheap fish into France has fallen on deaf European Community ears.

Colombo is at pains to clear itself of the UNEP charge that it is one of the world's five major dolphin catchers.