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

For fishers in the state, the timing couldn’t be worse. The closure of four major fishing harbours -- Munambam, Kalamukku, Thoppumpady and Chellanam - along with two major markets, Aluva and Chambakkara, as Covid-19 containing measures, has spelt doom ...

The current lockdown in Kerala’s coastal areas due to rising Covid cases has had its toll on seafood shipments and exporters say that “movement has virtually come to a standstill” following the suspension of operations in processing units. “We hav...

After Saturday’s fiasco when the Kasimedu fishing harbour was overcrowded, sale timings have been changed. Fish will be sold to wholesalers and mid-sized retailers from 3 a.m. to 8 a.m. Fisheries Minister D. Jayakumar said boats would be parked at demar...

Mumtaz Shaikh, a small fishing boat owner in Rehri Mayan, one of the largest fishermen localities in Karachi, is among many people, who have left his profession and shifted to another source of income. “I sold my boat eight years back after realising th...

The Danish embassy in Denmark announced a progression on a project to establishes community centres for fishing families in Tanintharyi and Rakhine state on 16 July 2020. The coastal communities in Tanintharyi and Rakhine were enabled to keep working on t...

The local fishermen (ramponkars) associations of South Goa have vociferously demanded that no fish vehicles from outside the state be allowed into the state until the Covid crisis gets over, and that until then, the local catch be allowed to be sold in th...

The Cutbona Boat Owners Association and Fishermen Society together held a meeting to finalise the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and unanimously decided start their business operations from September 1 instead of August 1. This included the fishing b...

Thirty fish farmers of Kohima village under Kohima District received aquaculture inputs such as fish seeds, fish feeds and enclosure nets on July 3. As per a report from the DIPR, the inputs were distributed by the Department of Fisheries & Aquatic Resour...

When Valentine Jelastine and Ajish Pinku set sail from Neendakara fishing harbour in Kollam on February 15, 2012, they had no idea they wouldn’t return home alive. That night, the two fishermen were killed in rifle fire by two Italian navy marines who w...

Ever since the Ockhi cyclone hit this coastal village in 2017, sea erosion had become an annual disaster for thousands of people in the panchayat. Video is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng_sAv0cWOI&feature=youtu.be