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

Noting that Kodagu has ample opportunities for fish cultivation, Minister for Muzrai, Fisheries, Port and Inland Transport, Kota Srinivas Poojary felt the need to carry out serious efforts in this regard. Chairing a meeting at Zilla Panchayat auditorium i...

“My son and I were home the morning when Amphan arrived—gushing torrents of rain followed by gusts of winds,” Bhaba Shankar Patra, an elderly resident of G-Plot—an island in the Patharpratima block of the Sundarbans—said on 7 June. Bhaba was rec...

The Government has amended the scheme rules of “ Welfare and Relief for Fishermen during Lean season and natural calamities” for disbursal of ban relief assistance to the fishermen. Ms Purva Garg, Secretary (Fisheries) in a release on Thursday night s...

A new report published by the United Nations (UN) calls upon governments and other actors to undertake urgent measures to radically transform food systems, to ensure endemic food security and nutrition. This comes ahead of the 2021 Food Systems Summit, wh...

All of our heads of government made a commitment to reach an agreement on fisheries subsidies by 2020 in the WTO. With restrictions in Switzerland being relaxed and meetings on WTO premises resuming, the time has come to pick up from where we left off. Gr...

Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed, on Tuesday, revealed that the government's loan facility issued MVR 51 million to eight fish exporting companies as a measure to stabilise cash flow. Speaking during a parliamentary session, Nasheed emphasized the im...

The Balochistan government will initiate development work at coastal belt of the province to attract more tourists as efforts are already being made for the modernization of Balochistan Coastal Development Authority to increase tourism and generate more r...

Myanmar has earned US$680 million from export of fishery products over the past eight and a half months of this fiscal year, exceeding over US$200 million compared to the same period of last year, according to the Ministry of Commerce. From October 1 to J...

A fisherman was dragged away by a crocodile into a river in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, police said. The incident happened in Patharpratima area around 6.30 am when Bishnupada Santra (68) was fishing at Gobdia river, a police of...

Over 2,000 mechanised boats in the state are set to be equipped with bio-toilets. The National Fisheries Development Board, under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana scheme, will finance the initiative. At Rs 30,000 per toilet, the project is estimat...