TEPCO has spoiled the water and fishing, and is on course to make it even worse. Trust TEPCO again after their failed design and failed disaster management? I hope not. Japan should seriously worry about losing its...
Supreme Court of Pakistan informed 454 Indian fishermen (out of total 582 currently detained) have completed their sentences in Pakistani jails, should be repatriated. Pakistani ministry of Foreign Affairs told Supreme Court that four hundred and fifty four (454) Indian...
Human beings are skilled at justification. Every year humans slaughter over 100 million sharks yet we depict them as vicious and blood-thirsty killers. No more than 12 people a year are killed by sharks worldwide....
Greenpeace is making a move to thwart bottom trawlers fishing in a marine protected area by dropping granite boulders onto the seabed. "Using a specially equipped barge, our team is placing a number of large...
created by Barbara McPherson | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 227 views | 26 recommendations | 2 comments
With the end of LTTE militancy in north and east Sri Lanka, the restrictions on fishing in Northern seas have been lifted. " Following the lifting of all restrictions on fishing, the industry is now gathering...
created by Hiranya Malwatta | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 722 views | 9 recommendations | 7 comments
The Colombo media reported that Sri Lankan government had removed the wartime fishing restrictions. This had come after a fishermen's meeting organized as part of the government's campaign to boost its image. This meeting was attended by several government officials,...
created by sivakaran | 3 years ago 208 views | 12 recommendations | 0 comments
"Restrictions on fishing lifted The government has lifted fishing restrictions imposed on fishermen in the north. "The restrictions placed on fishermen venturing out to sea from...
created by sathyajith | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 165 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
Fish farms off the Gulf of Mexico will likely receive approval to become the first ocean large-scale fish farm in the United States. The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will vote next week on whether to...
created by Amy Judd | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 248 views | 6 recommendations | 3 comments
The Sri Lankan Navy time to time (lately very often) attacks, arrests, tortures and kills the Indian Tamil Fishermen(Indian government is not doing anything to protect them) so far more than 500 Tamil Nadu, Indian fishermen killed so many of them shot, tortured and injured....
created by Japanagent | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 413 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
A family is grieving as two members of the same family tragically loose their lives doing what they must to make a living. "At the center of the tragedy is Matt Russo's wife, Josephine, who is pregnant, and their...
created by harringtola | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1321 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Hurricane Ike has severely hurt the Gulf seafood industry. I didn’t know this, but 60% of the oysters sold in the Eastern part of the US come from Texas and Louisiana. The hurricane destroyed...
created by poolparty | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1304 views | 5 recommendations | 5 comments
This is such a great idea.Mexico is investing in its endangered porpoise population. They will invest about 163 million pesos (about $16 million) to save the porpoise in the upper Gulf of California, buy paying...
created by Amy Judd | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 512 views | 7 recommendations | 7 comments
Extraordinary increase in diesel prices may force 100,000 crew members of 4,000 boats to stay idle at homes, as the official ban on fishing will end on July 31 (today). This will affect more than 100,000 fishermen...
created by rumana husain | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 932 views | 55 recommendations | 26 comments
Imagine if you were living on a First Nations reserve with 50, 60, 70% unemployment and and faced with this.Exactly."A dying way of lifeNew Canada-U.S. treaty and declining salmon stocks could spell the end of...
created by Susan Jones | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 340 views | 7 recommendations | 2 comments
"There is a kind of theft that happens every day in a majority of the world's poor countries - and in many of the richer ones too. It usually happens out of sight, and most perpetrators get away with it. The...