Twenty-five years after the devastating super-cyclone of October 29-30, 1999, which tore through coastal Odisha, most survivors have managed to rebuild their lives despite the challenges of official insensitivity and bureaucratic delays
With 128 fishermen languishing in Sri Lankan prisons on the charge of poaching in the island nation’s territorial waters, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday requested the Union Government to expeditiously secure their release and their 199 boats.
In wake of Cyclone Dana expected to make landfall along the coasts of West Bengal and Odisha on October 24-25, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Region (North-East) has initiated a series of preventive measures aimed at protecting lives and property at sea.
In a development that has ignited optimism for the ecological restoration of the Jalangi river, the prized Hilsa fish has been spotted after a 20-year absence.
The incident occurred onboard the Indian Fishing Boat (IFB) Sengalamman about 183 km off the Kakinada Coast (Andhra Pradesh).
The body of a fisherman, who went missing while fishing for hilsa was recovered from Jambudwip in South 24-Parganas yesterday.
Edgar de Luque Jacome, the Colombian director of the film ‘The Fisherman’s Daughter’, feels that there are apparent differences in the way people behave and live their everyday lives, and at the same time people may find the threads of commonality as human beings and that is what he is trying to trace through his film.
A fisherman died as two fishing boats collided off Munambam coast near Kochi in Kerala in the wee hours of Sunday.
To give readers an idea, more than 39 lakh people were associated in fisheries activities in Uttar Pradesh alone in 2019-2020.
It was further learnt that the increasing saline content has even pervaded into the subsoil and ground water making it extremely salty and harmful for consumption.
