-Scroll.in Last month, the government ordered all Fishing rings and homestays to be dismantled. It has caused disquiet in the local Fishing community. For decades, 59-year-old Oinam Rajen Singh has made a living by Fishing in Manipur’s Loktak Lake. The freshwater lake in Bishnupur district is known for its phums, or densely packed, floating masses of soil, vegetation and organic matter. The Fishing community, who are mostly Meitei, cut up the phums into...
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Audit lays bare numerous breach of India’s coastal regulations -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph Jail and racetrack on beach bully list New Delhi: An audit has identified dozens of public and private projects that have breached India’s coastal regulations — beach resorts, ports, roads, a racetrack, and even a jail near an Olive Ridley turtle nesting site. The exercise by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has flagged deficiencies in the Union environment ministry’s project approval mechanisms and lapses by state coastal regulatory authorities that...
More »With fish in shallow waters disappearing, fisherfolk in Kerala staring at penury -Navamy Sudhish
-The Hindu Navamy Sudhish reports on the disastrous impact of extreme climate events, rising fuel prices, destructive Fishing practices, and overexploitation on livelihoods and biodiversity As dawn breaks, Vitalis slowly glides into undulating waves below an azure sky. With a sparse crew of six, she bobs towards the Fishing ground some 10 nautical miles off the shore. The boat returns after five hours, its hold nearly empty. A pall of gloom settles...
More »WTO talks face deadlock over decision on patent waiver, fisheries subsidies
-PTI/ The Hindu The four-day ministerial conference that started on June 12 was extended by a day to give negotiators more time to iron out differences and strike the deal Talks at the World Trade Organisation conference hit a fresh hurdle late on Thursday with a group of countries blocking a decision on two crucial issues, temporary patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines and eliminating harmful subsidies to promote sustainable Fishing, sources said. The...
More »Why the deportation of an English anthropologist has south Kerala’s Fishing communities worried -KA Shaji
-Down to Earth Filippo Osella was about to launch a precise early weather-warning system the fish workers badly need Extreme weather events have made Fishing a dangerous occupation along Kerala’s southern coast — at least one local fisherman dies every week, according to the state disaster management authority. An early weather-warning system would go a long way in saving the lives and livelihoods of the area’s Fishing communities. And that’s what English researcher...
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