Feud over fishing starts a fire in Kerala village

Violence erupts in a quiet fishing village in south Kerala over the rights of traditional fisherfolk to resources of the sea.

Behind the fishing lines

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

Wellbeing in Venice

Venice isn't just canals and aristocrats. anupam mishra gets off a gondola and stumbles into well workmanship and rainwater use

"Inland aquaculture can improve livelihoods of millions"

M Vijay Gupta, former assistant director general, World Fish Center, Penang, Malaysia was the World Food Prize winner in 2005. He talks to Sourav …

MONSOON MANIA

PROTEST AGAINST POWER

Fishy decision

More whale meat will be available in Japanese markets

Conflict resolved

Encroachers to be evicted from Jambudwip, but allowed to fish for four months

Fisherfolk banned from Jambudwip island

No fishing on island without government's permission, says Supreme Court committee

Fishing bill on hold

Government to consult fishers

Dolphin kills may provoke US ban

Colombo is at pains to clear itself of the UNEP charge that it is one of the world's five major dolphin catchers.

Fishing fortunes

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

A lake full of woes

The Orissa state government and the high court assume different postures even as the local fisherfolk continue to suffer

Profiting from ecological subsidies

Lessons to be learnt from Chilika

Coral carnage

THAILAND

Protecting dolphins

A fine example!

Saving dolphins

The Patna high court gets cracking on erring officials

Fishy depictions

Exaggerated reporting about fish catches has painted a false picture of the oceans' health

We did our bit

Amongst the tsunami-affected in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu

Why the deportation of an English anthropologist has south Kerala’s fishing communities worried

Filippo Osella was about to launch a precise early weather-warning system the fish workers badly need

Indonesian seaweed farmers sue Thai company over oil spill

The oil spill caused seaweed to die which resulted in huge income losses, claim the farmers

Unshackling the Ganga

The Ganga Mukti Andolan is endeavouring to free a stretch of the Ganga -- and the exploited fisherfolk that derive their livelihood from it -- …