The Andhra Pradesh state fishermen cooperative societies rights protection committee has decided to stop supply of fish, including the variety to be administered as 'fish medicine'by Bathini Goud

The Chilka Matsyajibi Mahasangh, a fishermen's organisation of the Chilka area, today served a 24-hour ultimatum on the Orissa government to impose a ban on prawn cultivation in and around the lake

Fishermen who suffer financially during a two-month fishing ban in the South China Sea beginning next Tuesday will be given assistance from the Social Welfare Department. The move was announced after

Shrimpers breathed a sigh of relief last week after the U.S. lifted an embargo on Costa Rican shrimp imposed May 1, when U.S. inspectors caught local trawlers breaking sea-turtle-friendly fishing

The dreaded "white spot" disease is killing shrimps by the thousands in Canning and in Midnapore, with the farmers blaming their World Bank consultants. The disease-- which earlier played havoc in

Last week saw 13 bottle-nosed dolphins-apparently belonging to a school of protected animals-- washed up on the shores of Vishakapatnam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam in Andhra pradesh. They had

Several commercially important species of freshwater fish in Kerala are "critically endangered " and are facing the serious risk of extinction in the near future, says a study done by a researcher

With the monsoon round the corner, the issue of a ban on trawling along the Kerala coasts, has once again come to the fore with mechanised and traditional sector fishermen taking adamant and

Sweet water fish in the northern region of Bangladesh are on the verge of extinction as production has alarmingly increased in the past one decade. In addition to depriving the people of a major

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR) has launched a study to assess the level of 'incidental catch' of turtles while harvesting shrimps, following restriction on the Indian shrimp