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

A recent paper that represented the first in-depth study of Myanmar’s southern offshore fisheries in 60 years has found that between 2009 to 2018, Myanmar’s fisheries management scheme was ineffective and resulted in a drop in catch across the five ge...

The Hyderabad-based M.R.K.R. Constructions and Industries is all set to begin the construction of the fishing harbour proposed at Ameenabad on the Uppada coast of East Godavari district in April. “The company will begin the works with dredging operation...

The Maharashtra government on Wednesday declared an area at Amboli in Western ghats in Sindhudurg district, where a rare freshwater fish species was discovered, as a biodiversity heritage site. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s son Tejas Thackeray, who ...

Hilsa, the darling of fish lovers across West Bengal and Bangladesh, could be breeding upstream in the mighty Ganges later this year, after almost four decades of being locked out by the Farakka barrage across the river. A new navigation lock is in the ma...

The continuing fish drought, proposals that threaten the rights of traditional fishers over the sea and its fish resources, a lack of initiatives for protecting the coast in places such as Chellanam and Fort Kochi, continuous threat of eviction and rising...

5-Day Nationwide Forecast Under the influence of the cyclonic circulation over Southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining south Andaman Sea, a low pressure area has formed over the same region. The associated cyclonic circulation extends up to 5.8 km above ...

Heavy rains accompanied by strong winds, thunder and lightning in Bantwal on Monday night damaged at least 30 houses and several fishing boats. Several trees and electric poles too were uprooted due to strong winds. Electricity supply has also been comple...

The President of India is pleased to impose a uniform ban on fishing by all fishing vessels in the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) beyond territorial waters on the East Coast [including West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, And...

The Goa government on Tuesday told the state legislative Assembly that it had not received any official correspondence from the Centre declaring the coastal state as a "fisheries hub". Union Minister Giriraj Singh had last month said that Goa has the pote...

The state government has decided to write to the Union environment ministry and the National Coastal Zone Management Authority (NCZMA) informing them that Goa has a peculiar situation where fishermen are not isolated in ‘fishermen only’ villages. As s...