A Rs. 172-crore World Bank-aided project for shrimp culture was launched recently in West Bengal and will soon be implemented in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, according to Dr. M.Sakthivel, Senior

In a major victory for Indian seafood exporters, an interim panel of the WTO has ruled that an US embargo on imports of shrimps from India on environmental reasons was untenable, according to sources

The Kerala Government has beefed up security along the coast as the 45-day monsoon-time ban on trawling in its territorial waters became effective from midnight on

The number of South Korean fishing boats operating in the sea off Japan has increased sharply in the past couple of years. Marine resources in the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and other parts of

The great Caspian caviar fishery, formerly, controlled and protected by the Soviet Union, has degenerated into a dangerous free-for-all that threatens the invaluable sturgeon with extinction. On the

A Rs. 450-crore shrimp farm and fish culture project in brackish water, funded by the World Bank, was inaugurated by the West Bengal Governor today. This is the first of three such World Bank-aided

The seafood industry has asked the Centre to withdraw the recently introduced 8 per cent excise duty on branded fish and fishery products sold in the domestic markets since the major chunk of

Sea food exporters have urged the Orissa Government that instead of imposing a ban on shrimp farming altogether in the demarcated area, fishing should be regulated in such a manner that pollution

In view of breeding season of fish, Madhya Pradesh government has imposed a total ban on fishing for two months from June 16. During this period, fish sale and its transportation will be

A European Union ban on the use of drift nets in open seas was under negotiation with fisheries ministers haggling over how it should be implemented. UK proposed that drift netting should be phased