No small fry: Tiny fish can nourish the world; here is how

Fresh and dried fish are staples of the local diet in many areas and are frequently more affordable or readily available than alternatives like …

Let them eat carp: Fish farms are helping to fight hunger

Contrary to perception, a vast majority of farmed fish is consumed in the same developing countries where it is produced, and is widely …

Hilsa vanishing from poor and middle-class people’s menu in Odisha

Over-exploitation of fish stocks, construction of dams, use of gill nets and climatic factors to blame

‘Alligator Gar discovery a signal to revise list of fish introduced to India’

After the discovery of an Alligator Gar in Pune’s Pawna Dam, experts say the time has come to revise the list of fish being imported in the …

Fun park, fatal foundation

How marine fisheries can add millions of tonnes to Africa’s catch

Restoring ecosystems to a healthy condition could increase fish production by 50-60%

Going vegan: Where ‘Seaspiracy’ gets it wrong about global fisheries

Adopting veganism doesn’t reduce plastic within the ocean nor will it end climate change or the dominance of the fossil fuel industry

Scientists look into the past to identify locally threatened fish

The researchers reconstructed species’ occurrences by combining modern underwater transect surveys and catch assessments with historical records

Altered genes can improve fish

Scientists are trying to enhance the quality of fish by using a controversial technique and are confident the process will be perfected soon.

Caught out

Fishing leads to fishy genes

Will China challenge world fish stocks?

Perhaps not!

Protecting the catfish industry

Inverted sense

A-toll treasure

Have Alligator Gar in India started to reproduce? Not for the moment

A photograph showing a kingfisher holding what appears to be a juvenile Alligator Gar created a minor scare among fish experts

Climate change: Fish migration to hurt northwest Africa

Economies of northwest African countries would suffer as no policy measures to mitigate losses

Wanderlust heats up the blood of some fish

Biologists have found that some fish evolved into warm-blooded creatures because their adventurous ancestors were exposed to large temperature …

Fishy facts

One that will go

A US federal agency has ordered the demolition of a dam to protect regional ecology

Superfish

Pikes are great swimmers. Scientists are trying to find out how they do it

Small contest

The Manipur advantage

Price of seafood spikes in coastal Odisha due to annual two-month fishing ban

Odisha observes a two-month ban on trawling and mechanised fishing every year to help sea fish spawn

'Ocean cleaning depends on decisions taken by people across the world'

To combat problems such as ocean acidification and sea level rise, we have to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide

Fish eating microplastics a cause for concern, say experts

The changing feeding pattern of young fish will directly harm the food chain