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

These seven women have shattered another glass ceiling. With their distinctive skills, they have created a unique identity for themselves and dictate terms in the domestic trade of the fish catch that arrives in the Kakinada harbour. Conquering another ma...

A team from the office of the Naval Officer-in-Charge (Kerala) started a two-day Coastal Security Awareness Campaign (CSAC) in Kannur district on Thursday. The CSAC in Kannur district was formally inaugurated at the fishing harbour, Thalai, and later in t...

India hopes to export more generic drugs and textiles to Chile while the South American country wants to increase its exports of fish, oats, fruits, industrial products and chemicals, as the two have formally exchanged the terms of reference for expanding...

It was almost a year ago that Priyesh Maliyekkal, a 32-year-old fisherman from the coastal village of Azhiyur in Kozhikode district, got a class assignment from his teacher at the 10th grade equivalency class to write about an environmental issue. It was ...

The Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) has developed two nano-based formulations for cultured fish to improve their growth and disease resistance. The formulations are Nanox, an antibiofouling for wound healing and Zinc-Selenium Nanoplus f...

About 140 kilometers (87 miles) south of Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, lies the coastal town of Koggala, named after a picturesque lake and identified with author Martin Wickremasinghe, who lived there and wrote his famous children’s novel Madol Doow...

A stakeholder consultation-cum-training programme on ‘Cage Culture in Umiam Reservoir, Meghalaya’ was organized by ICAR-CIFRI, Regional Centre, Guwahati, in collaboration with Fisheries Division of ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Umiam at Umniuh...

Union Minister of State for Animal Husbandry Pratap Chandra Sarangi to take up with the Ministry concerned the issue of early release of the 15 poor fishermen from Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts, who have been languishing in Pakistan jail since Nov...

While GST exemption granted for fish meal till this month-end has brought relief to the fisheries sector, its levy from October could hit the seafood industry as the product is a key ingredient in shrimp and fish feed. Shrimp is the major item in the seaf...

The world can’t depend on the private sector to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 owing to its high level of debt, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) latest report. The Trade and Development ...