Objections find few ears
Fish blindness
CMZ dropped
Conservation hits Orissa fishers
What is good for Olive Ridley turtles is bad for fishers
National status will fetch it funds
A proposal to include the Calcutta wetlands in the list of waterbodies of national importance will protect it from real estate developers as well …
If nothing is done, we fisherfolk will perish
Bhajani Behera of Arakhakuda village, feels the lake is doomed unless the government mounts rescue operations quickly. He should know, because he …
Dying for a lake
Four fisherfolks were killed in police firing in Chilka Lake when they were protesting against prawn farming in the lake on May 29
Developed nations are not bothered about marine resources
Fifty-five-year-old thomas kocherry , one of the founders of the National Fishworkers Forum -- a trade union network of 200,000 traditional …
Just transition in petrochemicals: Dahej near Bharuch is Asia’s richest industrial zone. But what of its local fisherfolk
Industrial pollution has destroyed local fisheries in the Gujarat port, with fisherfolk forced to seek work in the units they sold their lands to
Wireless connection
South China Sea reefs face extinction due to overharvesting of Giant clams
With the Chinese government turning blind eye to illegal harvesting of clams, the South China Sea coral reefs are decimating at a rapid pace
"Polluters are today's environmentalists"
Crusader for the rights of over eight million Indian fisherfolk, Thomas Kochery , 57, made news headlines when he rejected the US $150,000 …
Farming fish and mussels
When bad management and increasing demand for inland fish led to plummeting stocks, fishing villages around the Ashtamudi estuary in Kollam …
Mahi in trouble
Two ‘tiger widows’ in the Sundarbans granted Rs 5 lakh each by Calcutta High Court, kindling hopes for others
About 30 fisherfolk or honey gatherers fall prey to tigers annually in the Sundarbans as per unofficial estimates; the kin of most are not …
Blood on the beach
Fisherfolk on the coast of Saurashtra kill whale sharks to make a living. If this is replaced by an ecotourism scheme the people and the fish …
As told to Parliament (September 21, 2020): No data on farmers’ suicides, admits government
All that was discussed in the Houses through the day
MP government to net in fisherfolk's body
Update
UN Ocean Conference: a roadmap for sustainable use of oceans
Stakeholders have been invited at the Ocean Conference to give voluntary commitments to ensure that the oceans remain clean and provide a robust …
"We are not afraid to lay down more lives for our rights"
Chilika, Asia's largest brackish water lake in Orissa, is in the midst of a controversy that refuses to die. At stake is the livelihood of …
West Africa’s falling fish stocks: Illegal Chinese trawlers, climate change and artisanal fishing fleets to blame
Current west African coastal fishing crisis in the Gulf of Guinea is complex because it has multiple and reinforcing origins
Prawns in danger
Morocco lifts ban on Spanish fishing boats
In court