The Andhra Pradesh fishermen cooperative societies' rights protection committee on Sunday called off its agitation following several assurances by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on their

The Himachal Angling Association has expressed concern over the large scale poaching fish in the Beas river flowing through Kangra valley.

Even as a special train is on its way bringing lakhs of astham patients to the Battina Goud brothers for their special fish cure, the treatment is facing a problem of its own: there may not be enough

The United States led a drive in the United Nations to ban the large drift nets and applied enormous pressure on Asian users, mainly Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, until they agreed to give them up.

The National Environment Board yesterday rejected an Agriculture Ministry proposal to relax its resolution to ban shrimp farming in the freshwater zone. The board insisted on keeping the ban on the

The Kerala government has banned fishing trawlers from operating in the Arabian coast during the monsoon season to conserve fish wealth. The ban comes into effect from 1 June and will last for 45

The Kerala Government is likely to abandon the Rs 75-crore Kuwait-aided "Kerala Fisheries Development Project for Prawn Culture", following steep rise in the project cost caused by the delay in its

Greenpeace has found driftnetters in just over a week-ten days before the EU Fisheries Council meets to discuss a proposal to ban the destructive fishing

The Kerala Cabinet decided today to impose a ban on trawling for 45 days from June 15 in the coastal waters of Kerala. The ban, on the lines of ones imposed in previous years, is aimed at conserving

Chilika , Asia's biggest salt water lake spread over 1,100 square kilomentres, is choking with an ever-increasing silt load and spreading nets of prawn culturists. Crass commercialism in the form of