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The European Union (EU) has committed more than two million Euros to the implementation of a four-year sustainable Fisheries Resources Development Programme.

Regulating fluvial systems by dams, barrages and construction of inter-basin link canals, has severe impacts on fish populations across the world’s rivers. In India, all major fluvial systems are interrupted by a series of barriers. This includes small weirs to large dams and salt-water barriers preventing saline incursion to the estuarine lakes.

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Lake Tanganyika was recently declared the “Threatened Lake of 2017” — adversely affected by human activity in the form of climate change, deforestation, overfishing and hydrocarbon exploitation

FAO has developed supplementary guidelines to the UNFCCC NAP Guidelines for "Addressing Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag Guidelines") aiming to support developing countries in making sure agriculture is both included in national adaptation plans and made more adaptive and resilient.

An "ecological disaster” is brewing at the popular Gillooly’s Farm in Bedfordview, Ekurhuleni, following the deaths of numerous fish allegedly caused by sewer water pollution of the farm's lake.

Almost half of the Unesco world heritage sites designated for their importance to nature are threatened by the illegal wildlife trade, a WWF report has said.

MUMBAI: The retail price of most varieties of marine fish in Mumbai has doubled in the last five to eight years. For that matter, the number of varieties has also dwindled.

Researchers working around Kenya’s Lake Victoria, a fishing community where locals battle high rates of disease and a depleted fish stock, have found that human illness exacerbates unsustainable fi

Research scientists at the Water Research Institute (WRI), one of the institutes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), have raised alarm over dangers posed to many fish farm

A toxic environment is known to create health problems for people, but sick people can also create health problems for the environment.

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