Full Coverage: Fisheries

29.06.2009 African farmers and fisherfolk are desperate for more reliable weather information. Kofi Annan's organisation aims to make things happen through the infrastructure for mobile phones. Global Humanitarian Forum

02.03.2009 Aquaculture - said today by a UN report to be the basis of all future growth in global seafood production - desparately needs to be put on a more sustainable basis, according to a global environment organisation.

24.06.2008 The argument that increasing whale populations are behind declining fish stocks is completely without scientific foundation, leading researchers and conservation organisations said as a meeting of the International Whaling got underway.
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01.05.2008 Sri Lankan government’s decision to ease restrictions on fishing in Eastern Province, a territory hitherto controlled by LTTE rebels, will give much needed fillip to the industry – a major source of revenue for the country’s exchequer and livelihood for people. It will also help people recover from 2004 tsunami disaster.

09.04.2008 CARACAS, Apr 8 (IPS) - Trawl fishing is on its way out in Venezuela, amid demonstrations by artisanal fisherfolk who support the new law as amended by President Hugo Chavez.

18.03.2008 With over 100,000 Oliver Ridley turtles dying over the last decade in Orissa in eastern India, Greenpeace has set a target limit of 20% on turtle mortalities for the state government. Despite adequate funds, the state has failed to prevent illegal trawling.

29.01.2008 River dolphins of Bangladesh are facing a serious risk of extinction due to over-fishing, shortage of prey, pollution, etc. Efforts are now being made to protect them by monitoring salinity levels of rivers and preventing accidental killings of dolphins by fishermen.

21.01.2008 Hundreds of thousands of shrimp farmers face uncertainty as some 6,000 shrimp farms and hatcheries in Bangladesh's cyclone-hit southern districts were washed away. The country’s shrimp exports, a major foreign exchange earner, have suffered an estimated loss of US$ 36 million.

16.01.2008 The Indian fishing communities are upset with the Ministry of Environment and Forests on being left out of the consultation process over an Integrated Coastal Zone Management scheme under World Bank guidelines. They say the government is trying to bring in Special Economic Zones, tourist resorts and ports all along India's coastline.

20.12.2007 Increasing levels of greenhouse gases are threatening the disappearance of plants and animals in mountains globally, warns FAO, while also raising chances of flooding, species migration and loss of crops and life.

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02.11.2007 Immediate European Union action to combat pirate fishing has been demanded by a leading environmental activism group.

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26.12.2006 A dozen village information centres functioning in the tsunami-hit coastal villages of Tamil Nadu get Internet connectivity. This facility would provides the fishermen have access to video conferencing, weather reports, local market network on fishing trade in these villages.

07.12.2006 from NASA:
Observations from space show that as the climate warms, phytoplankton growth rates go down as does the amount of carbon dioxide these ocean plants consume. That allows carbon dioxide to accumulate more rapidly in the atmosphere, which would produce more warming. The implications for the entire oceanic ecosystem (much of which ends up as food for humans) are dire.

11.10.2006 from Greenpeace Making Waves blog:
No wonder the fishing industry is called, "the most energy-intensive food production method in the world today."

08.08.2006 Israeli bombing has caused a major environmental disaster along much of the Lebanese coastline, writes Kassem El-Saddik. Clean-up operations cannot start without a ceasefire

05.06.2006 The plight of farmers and labourers in the Kolleru area of Andhra—the lowland between Krishna and Godavari deltas—is a striking example of misplaced policies and institutional mistrust causing disproportionate damage, opines Jayaprakash Narayan, coordinator of the Lok Satta movement and of VoteIndia, a national campaign for political reforms.

24.05.2006 UNITED NATIONS, May 23 (OneWorld) - As policy makers from around the world gather here to attend a major United Nations conference on fisheries, a prominent environmental group has renewed its demand for a global effort to stem so-called pirate fishing and a worldwide moratorium on high seas fishing by commercial companies using bottom trawlers.

10.04.2006 Although the Orissa government claims it has succeeded in cutting the number of turtle deaths by pushing aggressively for the use of nets that allow trapped turtles to escape, and enforcing no-fishing regulations, illegal fishing by trawlers in protected areas of the sea continues unchecked.