The entry of large business houses into the Sundarbans is not only jeopardising the interests of local fisherfolk, but also causing major ecological damage.

The earnings generated between prawn farming and prawn export show an 80 fold jump.

Attacks on prawn collectors by kamot, a small species of shark, are normally fatal.

Violence erupts in a quiet fishing village in south Kerala over the rights of traditional fisherfolk to resources of the sea.

THE FISH and the fishermen are both in trouble. To prevent a total collapse of fish stocks and the fishing industry, a drastic reduction in the European Community's (EC) fishing fleet has been