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

Struggling to wriggle out of the livelihood crisis caused by dwindling catch, fishermen are staring at another catastrophe as the rising temperature, triggered by El Nino, is expected to adversely impact the availability of fish stocks in the Arabian Sea....

The district administration has imposed a ban on farming of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) that pose a threat to native aquatic species. A release from District Collector C. Kathiravan said that the National Green Tribunal through its order no 43...

For over a month, traditional fishermen hailing from Chikkamagaluru, who have been staying in thatched huts on the banks of the Netravathi at Jeppinamogaru here, are living in the fear of attack by local fishermen. “We are being forced to lay our net...

For close to 20 years after a supercyclone ravaged Odisha, a group of women along the coast has been standing sentinel over their beloved storm-shielding forest and mangrove cover. Deftly swinging and beating their sturdy bamboo sticks, 75 women in Gundal...

The fishing hubs of coastal Karnataka — Mangaluru, Malpe and Karwar — are typically a multi-lingual set up as the mechanised fishing here heavily depends on workforce hailing from Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and also from north India. There ar...

Ministry of Climate Change and IUCN Pakistan co-organized a workshop to validate and finalize the 6th National Report (6NR) of Pakistan to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at a local hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan. The report refl...

The federal government with the coordination of all provinces would spend Rs290 billion on National Agriculture Emergency Programme in next five years, aimed at boosting crops yield, fishery and livestock development as well as water conservation of a lit...

On the afternoon of February 6, fish started dying in two streams near a banana plantation in Kachin State’s Waingmaw Township. Residents of two nearby villages, Aung Myay One and Aung Myay Two, collected and ate the fish, which were taken from the Nam ...

The Bombay High Court has questioned not only the Maharastra government but also the authorities including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), and the Ministry of Environment and Forest for not conducting a proper survey on how the proposed coa...

India is raising concerns about the rejection of its shrimp shipments by the US Food and Drug Administration for alleged use of banned antibiotics such as chloramphenicol or nitrofurans to prevent disease outbreaks. The analytical tests to detect antibiot...