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

Eco India, Episode 56: How conscious choices made by consumers could protect both fish and fishermen. Full video is available at: https://youtu.be/JMPZWFjB8wk

The government is drafting first national fisheries policy with a budget of Rs 45,000 crore for next five years to promote marine fishery, acquaculture and mariculture, official sources said. The only existing policy is on marine fisheries from which the ...

The fisheries minister of India’s southern state of Kerala is calling on the region’s fisheries sector to push its sustainable development toward serving people. During the third international symposium on marine ecosystems, held at India’s Central ...

Two persons drowned while six others had close shave after a canoe capsized midstream in Wainganga river separating Chandrapur and Gadchiroli districts on Tuesday morning. Rescue team from disaster management cell failed to recover the bodies despite inte...

Experts working with community in three river islands — Majuli (Majuli district), Chalakura Char (Dhubri district) and Kobu Chapori (Dhemaji district) — in the Brahmaputra have urged both the government and NGOs to treat the islands and their people a...

Nearly half of the fish caught worldwide are from stocks that are scientifically monitored and, on average, these stocks are increasing in abundance. According to a new global analysis, effective management appears to be the main reason these stocks are a...

The past decade has been the hottest on record, the UN said Wednesday, warning that the higher temperatures were expected to fuel numerous extreme weather events in 2020 and beyond. The World Meteorological Organisation, which based its findings on analys...

A DEJECTED Daw Myint Myint San was sitting in the small room of the labour office in Ayeyarwady Region’s Pyapon Township, nodding as if she understood what the labour officer was saying. The labour officer, a woman, was brandishing a book of labour law ...

The scenic beach, where poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote his first drama Prakritir Pratishodh, is now a ‘zone of contention’ between fishermen and the government. As boulders are being dumped on the Rabindranath Tagore beach in Karwar for building a bre...

Eighteen fishermen had a narrow escape at sea when two fishing boats collided due to poor visibility caused by dense fog near Odisha’s Gopalpur on Sunday morning. Four were injured but all of them swam ashore. Later other fishermen from the coast salvag...