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Fisheries
Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2009
biology
Small lever wins gold
Problem fish
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2009
grilled salmon with lime butter sauce, salmon sushi, smoked salmonthe fish tops the list of a gourmets choices. It also does not stay behind in providing health benefits trapped in its oil. But the wild salmon populations are threatened the world over and reports say the farmed ones are too toxic to offer health benefits; the contaminants enter their body from fish food.
Shoot at sight order for cormorants
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2009
Kerala district wants to cull 70,000 water birds to protect fish farms
The blind watchdog
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
The Gangetic dolphin is an indicator of riverine health. Like the river it's in a bad way
A Hindu legend has it that the Gangetic dolphin was once a beautiful princess, called Sukanya. The princess was vain and onced earned the wrath of an ascetic. Sukanya had gone to take a bath in a river when the holy man asked her not to disturb him. The princess continued bathing. The enraged ascetic cursed her to a life in the river. The vain princess was turned into a dolphin, susaka.
Appellate tribunal dismisses appeal
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
Fishers' plead to scrap port, SEZ on Kachchh coast
Industry wants alien shrimp
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2009
Pacific white shrimp is susceptible to viral diseases
an outbreak of white spot disease wiped out 40-60 per cent of Kerala's ready-to-harvest shrimp in the first week of May.
Just three months ago, the Union agriculture ministry allowed import and cultivation of a new shrimp variety, which, aquaculture experts say, is susceptible to the viral disease. There is no known cure for the disease.
Shrimp lose shine in Bangladesh
Issue Date: May 31, 2009
Soil salinity and falling global prices push farmers to agriculture
An increasing number of shrimp farmers in Bangladesh are going back to paddy farming. They don't find the business lucrative anymore. Reason? "Shrimp farming has rendered our village saline...Even groundwater has become too salty to drink," said Krishnapada Mandal.
Robbed of the sea
Issue Date: May 15, 2009
Marine protected areas have put thousands of fishers out of business. It doesn't have to be so
Voters retaliate with boycott
Issue Date: May 15, 2009
Denied rights, aggrieved citizens abstain from voting
having lost their means to earn a living, communities are increasingly using their vote to drive home the message
they distrust the State. Tribals who lost their agricultural land in a forest area because of faulty implementation of forest rights laws in Maharashtra
Feed from leftovers
Issue Date: May 15, 2009
Pollution caused by feed not eaten is a major concern for shrimp farmers. Madhusoodana Kurup, professor at Cochin
University of Science and Technology, Kerala, used a technology to convert these leftovers into protein-rich feed. Sumana
Narayanan understands how this benefits farmers
On why left-over feed is a problem
