A new species of fish has been discovered in the Western Ghats in India. Named Pethia striata, the fish was uncovered in a stretch of the Tunga River that falls within the Kudremukh National Park, in the central part of the Western Ghats, Karnataka. V M Atkore, an ecologist and a PhD student at the […]
Continue ReadingRs 100 crore crab industry under threat from biodiversity loss, indiscriminate crabbing With no legal control and monitoring mechanism, over exploitation of mud crabs from the wild has resulted in the stagnation of fisheries production of this species across the country, affecting the livelihood of many in the coastal districts. Sumitra Samanth in her shop […]
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The protein requirement of an average individual is estimated as 0.72g/kg/day (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies IMNA, 2005) which works out to 13.14 kg for a 50 kg person/year. Hence the country’s current protein requirement to feed its 1.27 billion populations is approximately 16.69 mmt. With one third of the Indian population preferring […]
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Hilsa, Tenualosa ilisha, is commercial fish in the Indo-Pacific region supporting the livelihood of millions of people. The most productive fishing ground for hilsa is the Padma-Meghana-Jamuna delta which drains in the Bay of Bengal—the highest landing of hilsa in the world being from Bangladesh. Like Atlantic Salmon, hilsa is an anadromous fish migrating over […]
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Global warming and its associated climatic change is the major environmental challenge of the 21st century. It has become a threat to the livelihood and economies of countries dependent on natural ecosystems of the planet including those in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. While the importance of fisheries and aquaculture is often less understood, the […]
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The role of fish in the nutritional security of India is perceptible from the fact that poultry consumption in the country is 1 kg broiler meat against fish consumption of 9.8 kg/caput/annum (CSO-MFS 2011‘Manual on Fishery Statistics’; Ayyappan, S., et al., 2009, ‘Fishery resources in the context of nutritional security in India’, Indian Farming). The […]
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Global warming is not only confined to the atmosphere; the oceans would get warmer too (expected to rise by 1 to 30 Celsius over next 50 years); acidify, turn saline, and sea levels and currents would change. These are likely to affect fish migrations and habitat, augmenting fish stocks in some places and decreasing them […]
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Global warming that is expected to occur over this century is not confined only to the atmosphere; the oceans would get warmer too. Over the next 50 years, temperatures in the Indian seas are expected to rise by 1 to 3°C (Fig. 1). The oceans are predicted to acidify, turn saline, and sea levels and […]
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The global mean annual temperature at the end of the 20th century was 0.7°C above those recorded at the end of the 19th century. The 12 warmest years in instrumental record have occurred after 1990. Climate extremes such as droughts, floods, rainfall distribution and snowmelt have increased at several places. Reports also indicate that Himalayan […]
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Shri G Mohan Kumar, Chairman, The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), in conversation with the editor, affably offered insights on issues of sustainable livelihood and outlined mechanisms to increase the export potential of breeding exotic and ornamental fish. He spoke in detail about a new initiative launched by MPEDA to promote ornamental fish farming […]
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