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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
Marine cleaners and client Moray and shrimp

Where do fish go for a spa?

Sejal Mehta 26 Jul 2019
Women are an important part of India’s fishing industry, especially as fish sellers. In Mangalore market they also work as loaders. Photo by Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar.

India begins regulating its fisheries

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar 22 Jul 2019

An SOS call for the ‘Tiger of Kaveri’

Arathi Menon 26 Jun 2019
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Gollum surfaces in India: Scientists document the first underground snakehead fish

Sahana Ghosh 15 May 2019

March of industrialisation tramples Kutch’s coastal ecology

Azera Parveen Rahman 1 May 2019

World Wildlife Day: 6 stories to know more about life below India’s water bodies

Aditi Tandon 1 Mar 2019

Managing marine life strandings, while national protocol is awaited

Supriya Vohra 23 Jan 2019

Migration aiding Sundarbans youth, women adapt to climate uncertainties

Sahana Ghosh 24 Dec 2018

A blood-red, snake-like burrowing fish from Meghalaya

Sandhya Sekar 8 Nov 2018