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

Recently, sudden protests erupted in Gwadar against the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Project. Slated to be an ‘upliftment project’ for the people of Pakistan, it has instead become a hallmark of Chinese expansionism resulting in crushing the right...

Shrimp farming has become the bane of the villages of Rameswaram island in Tamil Nadu. Shrimp farms cause soil and water pollution, affecting the groundwater table and farming in the villages. Despite the increasing environmental concerns and ecological i...

Jokapura village near Gohpur town in north Assam has shown how a community can turn its disadvantage into a thriving success story even during the times of Covid because of the vision of one entrepreneur. From a 10-acre fish pond in the middle of a 30 sqk...

The fisheries department on Thursday found 25 high speed fishing boats from Karnataka fishing in the territorial waters of Goa within two nautical miles near Talpona in Canacona. Assisted by the coastal police, the fisheries department seized five fishing...

Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Friday approved an ordinance brought by the state government relating to fishing and fishing business in the coastal areas adjacent to the sea. State Fisheries Minister Aslam Shaikh said on Friday that the Mah...

Traditional fishermen on Tuesday threatened to paralyse Goa with a mega morcha, if the State government fails to act against LED fishing and bull trawling along the Goa coast, within a month. Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott general secretary Olencio Simoes ...

With the IMD forecasting the formation of a low pressure area over south Andaman Sea in the next 48 hours and the possibility of its eventual build-up into a cyclone, the Odisha government on Sunday put all district collectors on alert asking them to clos...

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court was on Friday informed that the body of the Pudukkottai fisherman who died at sea following a collision with a Sri Lankan naval vessel had no ante mortem injuries. Justice G.R. Swaminathan was told that the re-po...

Eighteen of the 23 fishermen from Nagapattinam and Mayiladuthurai districts, arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy on October 13, returned home on Saturday. Fisheries Department sources said 17 fishermen from the coastal villages of Nagapattinam district and si...

Untapped opportunities in blue economy: So far, Bangladesh penetrated about 12% of the total fishing zone in deep sea. Arranging trips for international cruise liners requires permissions from scores of government agencies An integral approach t...