Fishermen bodies plan jalayatra ahead of agitation

With the number of Indian fishermen detained by the Sri Lankan Navy increasing in recent weeks, the National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) on Monday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to set up an "Indo-Sri Lanka Maritime Authority" to resolve issues like ...

Fishermen organised under the Fishworkers' Forum took a pledge here on Sunday to protect their traditional fishing rights. Receiving the participants of Jalayatra, a four-day voyage from Kochi to Thiruvananthapuram to create awareness of the ...

With the South West monsoon just weeks away, hundreds of fishermen and their families are bracing themselves to face the fury of the sea, even as large stretches of the coast remain vulnerable to heavy erosion in the absence of an integrated, ...

SPLIT - The Mediterranean ranks high on the list of the most overexploited seas globally, with 100 per cent of demersal fish stocks assessed as overfished by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM). As the organization opens ...

The Board of Directors of Thai Union Frozen Products PCL. at a Meeting No.3/2556 (2013) held on 10 May, 2013 passed the following resolutions: To acknowledge the Company sold investment in PT Juifa International Foods (JIF), a subsidiary of TUF due ...

Horse mackerel is taking over from hake as the main fisheries income generator, says Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources Bernard Esau. According to the ministry, the average export price for hake per tonne is around NAD 28,000, while that of ...

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and the Department of Conservation (DOC), in partnership with the fishing industry, have recently trialled an electronic monitoring programme in the Timaru set net fishery. The trial used electronic ...

YARMOUTH - Grey seals may ultimately be to blame for - get this now - a population boom in lobster. So said an industry source Thursday 9 May. His comments echoed recent scientific findings. The six-month lobster season in southwestern Nova Scotia ...

GENERAL SANTOS CITY - The volume of export-quality or sashimi-grade fresh mature yellowfin tuna landed at this city, the Tuna Capital of the Philippines, this year has gone down compared last year. Data from the Philippine Fisheries Development ...