Hirrak Development, an organisation working for the rights of an indigenous community of Sindh riverbed, Kehal/Mor, has urged the Punjab government to end fishing contract system and issue them special licenses for fishing in Indus River for their livelihood.

The demand was raised by the volunteers of Hirrak Development Zafar Lund, Rizwana and Zulfiqar in a briefing to Lahore Economic Journalis

The Sri Lanka Ocean University has taken steps to equip 3,500 multi-day fishing vessels with solar energy to prevent any breakdown in their radio network and electricity supply in mid-sea.

This project implemented by the university's lecturer N P G Pushpika under the guidance of Fisheries and Naval Engineering Institute Chairman Prof Ranjith Senanayake is aimed to minimize ship accidents in mid

The Department of Fisheries is planning to promote aquatic tourism in select areas of the State, following encouraging results from a pilot project in Guwahati.

From April onward this year, the department

Tiny algae and a whale native to the Pacific have crossed a thawing Arctic Ocean in what may portend a marine invasion threatening Atlantic fish stocks, scientists said on Sunday.

The Pacific algae, absent from the North Atlantic for 800,000 years according to fossil records, apparently returned after climate change thawed sea ice and currents carried the microscopic plants across the Arctic Oc

Despite difficult circumstances in FATA, the FATA Development Authority has succeeded in completing eight small dams; two each in Bajaur, Kurram, North Waziristan and one each in Khyber and South Waziristan agencies.

Himachal Markets 100 Tonnes Of The Farmed Variety Annually; Also Found in J&K, U

Lottery to identify beneficiaries of the land improvement grant scheme
Not the vagaries of nature, but chance will play a major role to identify beneficiaries, who have applied for benefits of the State Government

Panjim: Fish workers

KOCHI: Considered the most important effort at sustainable development of fish resources in the Arabian Sea, the one-and-a-half-month annual ban on fishing using trawl nets will take effect in Kerala's territorial waters on Tuesday midnight.

Roughly 4,000 boats will take the