French lose out on fish ban, gain price hike

French demands -- backed by violent agitations -- for a ban on the entry of cheap fish into France has fallen on deaf European Community ears.

Behind the fishing lines

Fisherfolk threaten to gut intrusive foreign trawlers despite India's recent review of its Deep Sea Fishing policy

Fishing for solutions

Canada and the European Union silence their cannons in their face-off over Atlantic fishing grounds

Looking for the right bait

Developing countries like India need to be prepared for multilateral negotiations. This is certainly true of the fishing economy

Caviar dreams

Threat to fishing

The rued lagoon

Fishy decision

More whale meat will be available in Japanese markets

Casting the net wider

A fish called hilsa

The population of Bangladesh's national fish is rapidly dwindling in local rivers

Red alert

Troubled waters

Pollutants alter sexual characteristics of wild fish

Measured efforts

Complete restoration of ecosystems may not be good

Sailing against the tides

India’s first and only licensed fisher-woman, Rekha Karthikeyan, has achieved this feat after challenging many social norms and beliefs

Sound sense

Fishes seem to be developing ways to detect and avoid high-frequency sonars that trawlers use to locate them

Fishing fortunes

A unique fishing cooperative in Bihar's Madhubani district boosts the confidence and economic independence of the local women

Drained dry

...are the local wetlands in Assam on account of short-sighted flood control measures and unsavoury fishing practices

Force the fish up

The annual Maund festival of the Aglar valley in Uttaranchal is both pure revelry and impure fun, says manisha viren singh

Simply Put: To eat or not to eat

New fish species discovered in Bengal’s Digha harbour

It is the fourth species of Pterygotrigla genus reported in India so far

Pengiun clues

Chilika rights

Through the fisheye

Some positive moves on conservation of Indian freshwater fish were made at a recent workshop

INSPECTION TIME

Toxic death

Reckless use of pesticides led to fish deaths in Delhi