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

The Rawal Dam, initially built to supply drinking water to Pindiites in 1962, gradually turns into an attractive tourists destination offering a lot of business activities of boating trips, fun riding, amusement facilities, eateries and fishing. The most ...

To ensure that relief and safety programmes for the fishing community, especially during times of disaster, do not get challenged at the World Trade Organization, India has insisted that government measures such as disaster relief, hygiene protection and ...

The Uttar Pradesh government has prepared a comprehensive plan to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi''s call for blue revolution a success in the state, Minister for Fisheries, Dairy and Animal Husbandry Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary said. The department of fish...

The fear that haunts Ko Than Htoo, who is the main breadwinner for his five-member family, is that Inle Lake will one day dry up. He has been a boatman for over 25 years. Only two years ago he had to leave nearby Pekon Lake after the water level went down...

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has wrapped up the first day of his first official visit to India with a US$ 400 million development credit line, an Indian commitment to help boost Sri Lanka’s security intelligence capability and co-operation in ...

The fishing community residing in and around the Loktak Lake area has strongly objected to the Inland waterway project to be developed on the water body claiming it will destroy its biodiversity and the livelihood of fisherfolks. Mansukh Mandaviya, minist...

The severe cyclonic storm Ockhi that hit the state on November 30, 2017, had left a trail of destruction in its wake in the coastal areas. Two years after, the fishers say the state government has not kept its word in reaching out to the victims. They poi...

Assam government on Wednesday announced to install one lakh tubewells across the state in order to provide water for irrigation in the state. The tubewells will be installed under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana with a view to extending coverag...

Kerala will be the most affected by the ban exercised by America on shrimps from India. An estimated 300 million dollars worth of shrimps are exported from Kerala to America. Brown shrimps, Karikkadi Shrimps and Deep sea shrimps from Kerala are really pop...

The International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF) has signed a five-year memorandum of understanding with the Maldives Seafood Processors and Exporters Association (MSPEA) defining long-term objectives between the two parties on joint sustainability init...