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

Fisher folks from Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram have joined the Army and state police in rescuing people stranded in Pathanamthitta district following floods in Pampa river and its tributaries. About 130 fishermen who knows swimming have been pressed into...

A breakdown of how women spend time can help design policies that make their lives easier and bring electoral gains for governments. India is trying to improve its jobs statistics with time-use surveys to estimate the value of unpaid work, especially hous...

The officials from Thailand and Myanmar signed MoU on financial assistance of a 34-million-baht to be spent on prawn breeding farm in Yaychanpyin, Rakhine State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday. The MoU signing marked the 70...

A Sri Lankan fishing vessel with six fishermen onboard had met with an accident off the seas of Myanmar due to a mechanical fault. The owner of the vessel said that the vessel encountered the mechanical glitch six days ago and it would be difficult to bri...

Police in Paung, Mon State, evacuated the fishing community in Ahlyat Village in Paung Township as high tide destroyed their homes yesterday, state media reported. The wave destroyed seven homes yesterday and 37 on Monday in the fishing village. Police...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has released the latest edition of Yemaya, its newsletter on gender and fisheries. Yemaya No. 57, dated July 2018, features articles from Sri Lanka, India, and an analytical article on sex-...

When a few experts from the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP), an inter-governmental organisation, found that a significant number of fishermen who die at sea were those resting onboard their vessels after dark, it prompted them to look for a solution. They ...

The fishermen community on Thursday opposed the water aerodrome project in the Chilika lagoon, a few days after the proposed initiative snowballed into a political game. The fishermen under the aegis of Chilika Mastchyajibee Mahasangha apprehended loss of...

The deaths of 40 fishermen in three incidents of trawler capsize in the Bay of Bengal in a little over two months have prompted the West Bengal government to formulate guidelines for fishermen, trawler owners and operators. Fisheries minister Chandranath ...

The ocean has long been a source of economic livelihood for billions of people worldwide. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), oceans contribute $1.5 trillion annually in value-added to the overall economy. Adopt...