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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

Narmada, the forgotten river, is not on anyone’s agenda

Mayank Aggarwal 19 Apr 2019

Making maps to protect fishing villages around Chennai

Mahima Jain 7 Feb 2019
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A new species of shark from studying fish by-catch

Manupriya 28 Jan 2019

India’s first attempt at regulating fishing trawlers underway

Karthikeyan Hemalatha 28 Jan 2019

Migration aiding Sundarbans youth, women adapt to climate uncertainties

Sahana Ghosh 24 Dec 2018

India’s sharks and rays: an ancient species on the brink of extinction

Bhanu Sridharan 10 Dec 2018

Bihar’s wetlands are on a ventilator, but there is still hope from the ground

Gurvinder Singh 18 Oct 2018

[Book review] “Were conservation a Facebook status, it would read: It’s (very) complicated”

Prerna Singh Bindra 16 Oct 2018

Popular fish and where to find them: Species specific advisories to help fishermen with profits

Mayank Aggarwal 30 Aug 2018

[Video] Glimmer of hope for co-existence of conservation and livelihood in the Gulf of Mannar

Arushi Dutt 8 Jun 2018