ICAR Advice to Farmers of Flooded Farms
INDIA - The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has issued following advisories to fish farmers in flood-affected regions in the states of Andhra and...

Fish Population in HDR Down
INDIA - Fish populations in Hirakud Dam Reservoir (HDR) are falling and many species are becoming extinct.

Shrimp Farmers Warned over Use of Banned Products
GOA, INDIA - The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), is urging shrimp farmers not to use banned antibiotics and herbicides containing pendimethalim....

Manipur Fish Farmers Call for Drought Relief
MANIPUR, INDIA - Although the Government of India declared some parts of the country including the North eastern states drought affected no programme for fishermen...

Tough EU Measures Sink Indian Seafood Exports
INDIA - Faced with a spate of export rejections and slack demand, the Indian production of scampi or the freshwater shrimp has registered a 53 per cent fall to 12,806...

FTA with ASEAN May Have Adverse Effect
INDIA - The Kerala Swathanthra Malsyathozhilali Federation (KSMTF) and Focus on the Global South, a regional research and campaign group, said that the Central Government’s...

Fish Farmer's Day Highlights Success and Challenges
INDIA - Induced breeding of fish paved the way for a booming Indian aquaculture industry.

Indian Fish Festival Inaugurated at Hyderabad
INDIA - Agriculture and Food Minister Shri Sharad Pawar reiterated the Government’s high focus on the fisheries sector and said that the Government was exploring...

US Set Anti-Dumping Tariff
INDIA - The US Department of Commerce settled the final rates of the third administrative review of anti-dumping duty imposed on shrimp and prawns imported from...

Training Course for Fish Farmers
INDIA - A two day fish farmers training course was held on ‘intensive aquaculture in ponds and tanks’ under the National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) at the...

Three Year Plan to Improve Aquaculture
INDIA - Union Minister for Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Sharad Pawar has called on the fish producing states to set out a plan...

Indian Foodgrain Essential for Aquaculture Growth
INDIA - Agriculture and Food Minister, Shri Sharad Pawar today exhorted agricultural scientists to work for doubling agricultural productivity to meet the growing...

Indian Seafood Exports Fall 1.4 Per Cent
INDIA - India's seafood exports are down 1.4 per cent in U.S. dollar terms to $1.71 billion between April 2008 and February 2009 compared to the same time in the...

Indian Industry Demands New Shrimp
INDIA - An outbreak of white spot disease wiped out 40-60 per cent of Kerala’s ready-to-harvest shrimp in the first week of May

Rural Aquaculture: New Indian Government Go Inland
INDIA - The new government is planning to give a major thrust to the fisheries sector, particularly inland fisheries.

Indian Seafood Exporters Vie for New Ministry
INDIA - A seafood exporters' lobby in Kerala has urged the government to create a separate ministry for fisheries.

Indian Prawn Project Ends in Pollution
INDIA - It was a project that could have doubled the yield of freshwater prawns in Gujarat. But 10 years on, the freshwater prawn seed hatchery in Umarwada stands...

White Spot Disease Threatens Kerali Shrimp Farmers
INDIA - Shrimp farming is a means of livelihood for thousands of Keralites residing along the state’s coastline, but a sudden attack of white spot disease is threatening...

Indian Fish Farms Get Intensive with $123 Million
INDIA - Technologies for intensive aquaculture could be used to improve fish yields in more than 800,000 hectares of water.

New Guidelines for Aquaculture in Farms and Tanks
INDIA - The National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) has announced guidelines to help fulfil the country's aquaculture potential through a set of intensive farming...

Formulated Feed for Carnivorous Fish Released
INDIA - Under the World Bank funded National Agricultural Innovation project (NAIP) A value chain on oceanic tuna fisheries in Lakshadweep sea, a formulated...

India Relieved of US Shrimp Duties
INDIA - Giving a major relief to the Indian shrimp exporters, the US Customs & Border Protection (CBP) has recently withdrawn the customs bond requirement imposed...

Last Chance for Farmers to Register in India
INDIA - Sea food exporters will not purchase aquaculture produce from farmers who have not registered themselves with the Coastal Aquaculture Authority (CAA),...

Cobia to be Bred for Commercial Production
INDIA - In six months, researchers hope to give India's marine aquaculture export a leg-up by developing a technology to breed the Cobia (Rachycentron canadum),...

Mussel Project Repeats in Goa
INDIA - Aimed at the grassroot level of the population, fisheries research always gives the institutions involved a reason to rejoice. Now it is the turn of the...