The Documentation Centre of ICSF was initiated in 1999, in Chennai, India.

Unsustainable practices in global fisheries and aquaculture have impacted on women in the sector, highlighting the need for a strong feminist framework to inform policy and development approaches toward socially and environmentally-just fisheries. Deepeni...

Over 300 researchers, practitioners, small-scale fishers, civil society organizations, environmental organizations, and government representatives will gather next week to discuss transdisciplinary strategies to sustain small-scale fisheries as a global f...

The ban was imposed on hunting ilish in the rivers and the sea for 22 days with the aim of ilish conservation during the main reproduction season. 390 fishermen from six districts of Barisal have been jailed over different spans of time for netting mother...

With the work on the breakwaters expected to be completed in a couple of months, the Gangolli fisheries harbour is set to emerge as a second major fisheries centre in Udupi district. The work on the breakwaters is nearly complete and would help in smooth ...

The mobile application, Sagara, launched by the fisheries department to ensure safety of fishermen at sea had its district-level inauguration at Thoppumapady on Monday. The function, which was attended by more than hundreds of members of fishermen communi...

After around four months of ban on import of fish to Nagaland(from Andhra Pradesh), a large consignment of fish from Andhra Pradesh was cleared as safe and without formalin, by the food safety officials from the Health department. Sources said that the fi...

Sri Lankan Tamil fisherman A. Mariyadoss’s 10-month-long-battle to return home, after Rameswaram fishermen rescued him when he was battling for life on the high seas in December 2017, drew to a close, with the Tamil Nadu government ordering that he can ...

Pakistan’s maritime forces on Wednesday captured 11 Indian fishermen and seized their boat in the Arabian Sea, PTI reported. The Indian Coast Guard said that it is in touch with its counterparts in Pakistan to enable the release of the captured men and ...

Seventy-year-old Narayan Sahni reminiscences the days when he used to catch around 8-10 kilograms of fish from the Kanwar Lake in Bihar almost every day. The catch was enough to run his family of four, including his two children. But for the past decade, ...

The Myanmar government has expanded a protected stretch of the Irrawaddy River as part of efforts to save the critically endangered dolphin species of the same name. The Irrawaddy Dolphin Protected Area, established in 2005 with an initial span of 74 kilo...