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Young milk sharks caught by fishers at a wharf in Mangalore, Karnataka. Image by Karunakar Rayker via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Study explores social media as a tool to track shark and ray consumption

Divya Kilikar 3 Feb 2026
A catch of squaretail groupers (Plectropomus areolatus). Image by Rucha Karkarey.

A Lakshadweep island’s strategic value worries conservationists and fishers

Max Martin 27 Jan 2026
A shore seine net is hauled ashore at Valinokam, Tamil Nadu, while people gather along the beach to watch. Image by Vinod Kumar.

Traditional fishers turn rescuers in a win for declining marine wildlife [Commentary]

M. Fathima Hanna, Teresa Scholastica Thomas, I. Santhanamari, Vinod M. Kumar, Maria Antony P., M. Soubadra Devy 26 Jan 2026
Fish vendors at a market in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Image by Rajesh Pamnani via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

India’s fisheries budget misses the ocean for the fish [Commentary]

Ajay Sawant 22 Dec 2025

Whale shark rescues gain momentum along India’s west coast

K.A. Shaji 28 Nov 2025
A variety of sharks and rays caught in a trawler. Image by Imran Samad.

India’s nearshore fisheries overlap with shark and ray habitats

Rupsy Khurana 18 Sep 2025
The blacktip reef shark is a regular catch of coastal fisheries, such as those operating off Thailand and India, but is not targeted or considered commercially important. Photo by Memurubu/Wikimedia Commons.

New study finds world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras at risk of extinction

Spoorthy Raman 27 Jan 2025

[Explainer] What are fish refugia?

Kundan Pandey 24 Jan 2025

Audit report flags issues with coastal projects

Simrin Sirur 17 Jan 2025
A yellowfin tuna.

European Union’s collusion with fishing lobbies is damaging the Indian Ocean tuna, say critics

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Apr 2023

Low coastal catch forces artisan fishers into the deeper, riskier waters of the storm-prone Arabian Sea

Max Martin 13 Jan 2023
Malvan’s fisherwomen are mainly involved in ancillary processes. Once their husbands return with the catch, the fisherwomen set out to cut, clean, market and even bargain with customers and agents or middlemen, known as dalals who help them sell their fish in the wholesale market. Photo by Manjula Nair/Mongabay.

Artisanal fishers struggle in Malvan

Manjula Nair 27 Dec 2022

Demand for sea cucumbers turns India-Sri Lanka waters into trafficking hotspot

Malaka Rodrigo, Pragati Prava 11 Feb 2022

How climate change is taking a toll on livelihoods of small-scale fishers in Kerala

K.V.A. Khadar 16 Aug 2021

Fish sanctuaries and community support for conservation of Meghalaya’s mahseer

Azera Parveen Rahman 3 Aug 2021

[Commentary] The unspoken crises of Lakshadweep

Rohan Arthur 3 Jun 2021

Predatory European ships push Indian Ocean tuna to the brink

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Apr 2021

Eating shark meat might be normal in India but it could have an adverse impact

Supriya Vohra 22 Feb 2021
Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) made it to of the “100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species”.

[Commentary] Tilapia: How an invasive fish came to dominate our ecology, food and psyche

Aaron Savio Lobo 15 Oct 2020

Bodh fish, the ‘shark of Bastar,’ threatened by a proposed hydropower project

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 9 Oct 2020