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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
Sundarban fishing in river 2 - photo Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

With depleting fish catch, Sundarbans fishers migrate to other coastal states

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 28 Aug 2020

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

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

Himanshu Nitnaware 8 Jun 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

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

[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

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

Bhanu Sridharan 22 Nov 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

India’s first attempt at regulating fishing trawlers underway

Karthikeyan Hemalatha 28 Jan 2019

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

Bhanu Sridharan 10 Dec 2018