Over 2,000 agitating fishermen and activists belonging to Left parties were arrested on Saturday as the dawn-to-dusk Orissa bandh called by the Chilka Matsyajibi Mahasangh, an apex body of the

The death toll in police firing at Sorana village in Khurda district on Saturday night has increased to four with one of the six injured fishermen succumbing to his injuries at the S.C.B. medical

The West Bengal government yesterday said it was finding it difficult to check the increasing number of foreign fishing trawlers posing a threat to the fragile marine ecology of the sundarbans, the

The fixed salmon catch quotas that existed under the original Pacific Salmon Treaty between the United States and Canada are history. A new agreement based on abundance of the valuable food fish was

Opp : The Orissa Opposition alleges that action against officers responsible for the Chilka firing and the government decision to promulgate an ordinance to ban prawn culture is an eyewash.

Vietnam has repeated its rejection of China's fishing ban in the South China Sea, saying it violates Vietnam's sovereignty, local press reported on Thursday.

The government of Thailand is expected tomorrow to try to end months of conflicts between commercial anchovy trawlers and local small-scale fishermen in Songkhla. Both sides have been told to send

The Chilka Matsyajibi Mahasnagh, a fishermen's organisation speardheading the agitation against prawn culture in Chilka Lake, has given a call for Orissa Bandh on 5 June in protest against the

The Orissa Government has decided to formulate a new policy on Chilka lake to protect the interests of the traditional fishermen and preserver the lake's ecology.The decision has been taken in the

The state government today accepted a fishermen's demand to ban prawn farming in Chilka , two days after police firing killed three fisherfolk during a clash prompted by the issue.