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Low fish catch along India’s western coast hints at impacts of climate change

Kapil Kajal 3 Aug 2020

Draft National Fisheries Policy seeks big growth but ignores fishers

Supriya Vohra 21 Jul 2020

The rare shark of the Ganga

Kelly Duhigg 24 Jun 2020

How Mumbai’s fishers adapted in the lockdown, kept their sales alive

Himanshu Nitnaware 8 Jun 2020

Study suggests tuna gillnet fisheries deadly for dolphins, but evidence unconvincing

Bhanu Sridharan 11 May 2020

El Niño-Southern Oscillation can affect tuna fish in the Indian Ocean, says FAO report

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 24 Apr 2020

Ganjam fisherwomen unite to get back fish trade from monopolistic traders

Priya Ranjan Sahu 2 Apr 2020

Kerala’s fishing beaches littered with large amounts of fishing debris

Neha Jain 3 Mar 2020

“There is no fish in the ocean”: Declining catch worries fishers in southern Karnataka

Supriya Vohra 18 Feb 2020

Artificial reefs breathe new life for Tamil Nadu’s fishing communities

Mahima Jain 11 Feb 2020

[Commentary] Budget 2020 is an opportunity for navigating Indian fisheries sector out of the blues

A. Suresh, V.K. Sajesh and Manoj P. Samuel 30 Jan 2020

Fish meal and fish oil industries pose threat to the fishing sector in India

Haritha John 2 Jan 2020

Fish products in European supermarkets connected to unsustainable fishing practices in India

Monica Evans 2 Jan 2020

Beached in Goa

Supriya Vohra 4 Dec 2019

Can a village specialised in shark fishing have lessons for India’s fisheries?

Bhanu Sridharan 22 Nov 2019
Thresher sharks are targetted in shark fisheries across the world for their meat, liver oil and fins. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s latest assessment, 139 of the approximately 482 species of sharks found across the planet are threatened by overfishing. Photo by Bhanu Sridharan.

Twenty years in the making: Where is India’s National Plan of Action for shark fisheries?

Bhanu Sridharan 15 Nov 2019

Named after ‘bhujia’, a new species of underground fish pops up in Kerala

Sahana Ghosh 15 Oct 2019

Ken-Betwa river linking project may be economically unviable, says Supreme Court’s committee

Mayank Aggarwal 18 Sep 2019

Enormous alien fish spotted in Kerala’s rivers after the 2018 floods

Aathira Perinchery 16 Aug 2019

Mumbai’s fishers relieved after courts pause the coastal road project

Nikhil S. Dixit 12 Aug 2019