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

In order to help double fishermen’s income by March 2022, the department of fisheries has planned to promote crab culture by putting mangroves to use and also promote aquaculture in inland and brackish water areas besides laying emphasis on improving th...

Nearly three years after the devastating Chennai oil spill, southern bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a joint expert committee to assess the remedial measures by the State government to restore the coast and submit a report in three ...

The India Meteorological Department on January 6, 2020 released its much-awaited report on India’s climate in 2019. As expected, the climate crisis wreaked havoc. The number of cyclones in Arabian Sea stood out in particular. Down To Earth has regularly...

National Mission for Clean Ganga held its first session of the Ganga lecture series with an aim to educate and discuss the glorious past and present of river Ganga in New Delhi. Dr. Sudipta Sen, a distinguished professor and acclaimed historian, who also ...

Marine fisheries will become more profitable and the people involved in the sector will have a better socio-economic status if ocean resources are made sustainable, according to a global fisheries expert. “Even though it is not easy to maintain sustaina...

Fisheries Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary on Tuesday said the state government will provide two-wheelers to fishermen to help them sell fish in local markets. Speaking to mediapersons at the party office in Bengaluru, the minister the state will announce t...

To cultivate fish in Vuter Khal (canal), a group of local influential people have set up illegal bamboo enclosures halting natural flow of the canal in Barishal’s Mehendiganj upazila. Originated from the Maskata river, the three-km-long canal connects t...

During three months of this fiscal year, the marine export earnings exceeded 250 million US dollars, up over 34 million US dollars compared with the same period last year, according to the Commerce Ministry. Till December 27 of this FY, the total marine e...

A year after cyclone Gaja made landfall in November 2018 with severe impacts in southern Tamil Nadu, coastal communities in Nagapattinam are still recovering from the widespread devastation. Official figures say that at least 57 people were killed but thi...

Over the past 48 years since independence, Bangladesh has made significant progress across the socio-economic spectra. The GDP has grown many times and the economy has transformed from an agrarian base to a modern manufacturing and service economy. The ex...