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Fishers try to stay afloat amid lockdown

Supriya Vohra 10 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

Marine subsidies are a mess, say small scale fishers of southern Karnataka

Supriya Vohra 2 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, 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

Are shark conservation laws inclusive?

Bhanu Sridharan 2 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

Dammed and mined, Narmada River can no longer support her people

Hridayesh Joshi 2 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
The Tharuvaikulam wharf from where the palmyra tree climbers who took to fishing set sail with their eco-friendly gill nets.

Tharuvaikulam’s palmyra climbers turn sustainable fishers

Jency Samuel 9 Aug 2019

Kerala’s monsoon trawling ban has become a bone of contention

Haritha John 31 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

Vhali Watcher: An app to set whale sharks free

Vasudevan Sridharan 7 May 2019

March of industrialisation tramples Kutch’s coastal ecology

Azera Parveen Rahman 1 May 2019