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

Migrant workers in South-East Asia’s fishing and seafood processing sectors will benefit from a new programme that continues efforts to promote regular and safe labour migration throughout the industry. “Ship to Shore Rights South East Asia” is a fo...

Despite the duty-free market access for 97 per cent goods, Bangladesh could not seize the opportunity for most of last year because of a lack of diversified goods and the fallouts of the coronavirus pandemic. Beijing extended the duty-free access to 97 pe...

Sixty-year-old Lalchand Das lives on fishing in the Chakirpasha river of Kurigram's Rajarhat upazila. Like him, 2000 people from 420 fishing families have been making a living by fishing in the river for years. But this year, they are not being allowed to...

The bird flu scare has increased the demand for aqua products. Even though Nellore and Chittoor districts have not reported any case of bird flu so far, majority of the urban people have switched over to consumption of fish and prawns from chicken. The pr...

The Women Empowerment Committee of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly wrapped up its two day visit to South Garo Hills on Tuesday during which various issues relating to women besides other matters were reviewed in a meeting held at the District Resource ...

The aim of this report is to present evidence towards how Information and Communication Technologies for Small-scale Fisheries (ICT4SSF) might enable and support the implementation of the FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale F...

The 4,000 square miles of dense swamplands that span the India-Bangladesh border – the Sundarbans – are believed to be the largest continuous mangrove forests in the world. The area is made up of an intricate network of waterways, saltwater forests, m...

On May 25, 2009, Cyclone Aila hit south-western part of the country. Sutarkhali in Khulna’s Dacope upazila was one of the remote villages in the Sunderbans pummelled by the cyclonic storm. The powerful cyclone destroyed farm lands and flattened houses i...

On a warm November afternoon, Parul Haldar balanced precariously on the bow of a small wooden dinghy, pulling in a long net flecked with fish from the swirling brown river. Just behind her loomed the dense forest of the Sundarbans, where some 10,000 squar...

Three significant aspects of Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s recent visit to Sri Lanka need to be highlighted. First, the timely medical assistance to tackle the problems posed by Covid-19; second, New Delhi’s hope that Sri Lanka “in ...