India has recently moved to unlock the commercial deep-sea and high-seas fishing market — issuing digital Letters of ...

The mahseer fish is a type of carp that lives in the glacial rivers of the Himalayas. It has an athletic, long, lean body; large golden scales; and lateral lines like the ones found in sharks. It has ...

The wetlands of West Bengal in eastern India are one of the country’s best habitats for the fishing cat, a species vulnerable to extinction. But a significant population of these fish-eating, ...

India becomes the 123rd member to join the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, promoting sustainable fishing and protecting small-scale fishers from harmful government subsidies on illegal and ...

SUBHASH NAGAR, PORBANDAR & KETI BANDAR, THATTA – Laxmi Chunilal Chawda, 55, sought respite on a humid afternoon, her head gently cradled against a faded, worn-out wall. Alone in her modest one-room ...

Tugging ropes and bellowing chants, five men hoist from the water a huge spidery frame gripping a web of fishing net—a centuries-old custom on the southern Indian coast. Two of the team bound down a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Fishing communities across the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are fighting to protect their traditional lands as the sea rises on one side and ...

Starting 20 February, India—the world’s second-largest producer of fisheries and aquaculture—will introduce an Access Pass system for fishing in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), which stretches up ...

Absence of international arrangements leaves large areas and species including shark and squid open to unregulated exploitation. Unregulated fishing on the high seas of the Indian Ocean is putting ...

This week, Sri Lanka adopted an amendment to its Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Act banning bottom-trawling fishing in its waters. Those in violation of the new law will face a significant fine and ...