Familiarising Scientists with Aquaculture
INDIA - In an attempt to familiarise scientists of South-East Asian countries on aquaculture science and inland fisheries management for sustained growth of the sector, the Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) is hosting a workshop.

Science Shows Inland fisheries have huge potential
INDIA - India's inland fisheries sector offers a wide scope for increasing fish production through aquaculture and by increasing the coverage of water area.

Exporters threaten not to source shrimp from farms
INDIA - An effort of the government’s trade promotion body Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) to clamp down on a practice of shipping out shrimp with antibiotic residues which threatens India’s global shrimp trade has resulted in exporters...

Now, IT course for extension officers in aquaculture
INDIA - Scientists at the Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture here have embarked on a unique mission to empower block-level extension officers about the role of IT in aquaculture sector.

Marine industry plans to introduce vannamei shrimp
INDIA - India produces mainly black tiger shrimps; processing facilities are operating at less than one-third capacity. Its marine industry is planning to introduce vannamei shrimp, a native species from South America, to increase production that has...

India ranks second in inland fish production
INDIA - With immense possibilities for both open water fisheries and fresh water aquaculture, India ranks second only to Japan in inland sector fish production.

‘Smart shrimp’ a bone of contention
INDIA - The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) of India is all set to produce next generation smart shrimps or Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) shrimps in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

VIV's first India event gets underway
INDIA - VIV India was officially opened this morning by Professor. V.L. Chopra of India's government. It is the first VIV exhibition to be held in India.

Real reason behind depletion of India’s mangroves revealed
INDIA - New research has found out the reality behind the destruction of tropical mangrove forests in the tsunami-affected regions of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar.

Subsidies to boost marine exports
INDIA - The Marine Products Exports Development Authority (MPEDA), to boost marine exports and earn precious foreign exchange for the country, will extend subsidies to a host of marine related activities, its Chairman G Mohan Kumar said.

Commercial production of seeds of tiger shrimps begins
INDIA - The Fisheries College and Research Institute has commenced commercial production of seeds of tiger shrimps on its Maritech Research Centre campus situated at Tharuvaikulam near here.

Killer disease hits shrimp exports hard
INDIA - For foodies across the world, it’s a bad news. The much-savoured cultured shrimps reared in the coastal belt of Olpaad taluka in Surat have been hit by a killer disease.

Centre to help produce better quality tiger prawn
SRIKAKULAM - The Agriculture and Fisheries departments are jointly setting up a Tiger Prawn Research Centre (TRPC) at Moolapalem in Sompeta mandal at a cost of Rs 50 crore.

Thailand company likely to invest $10m in State
INDIA - In what is likely to be the first case of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the State, a major business concern of Thailand has shown keen interest in investing $ 10 million in Assam in the aquaculture and fishery sector.

Prawns and crabs take the place of chicken
INDIA - Prawn and crab have become a recent up-market delicacy and in turn chicken meat has become poor man’s non-vegetarian choice.

Fish price crashes
INDIA - The price of fish crashed by about 30 to 40 per cent in all coastal towns of Nagapattinam district during the last week following poor demand.

NETFISH to improve quality
INDIA - Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh on Monday said that the government was keen on diversifying the fishing sector.

Do you know that freshwater leafage and mussels make pearls?
BHOPAL - Very few of us know about the many ways in which pearls are formed. If you want to know the answer, ask Vijayeta Rathore, a young scholar in applied aquaculture from Barkatullah University of Bhopal.

Trout farmers petition against Kullu hydle project
INDIA - Residents of Patlikuhl area in Kullu district have filed a petition in Himachal Pradesh High Court challenging the government’s decision to grant NOC to a hydel power project on Haripur nalla.

New technology vital for aquaculture growth
INDIA - It is imperative to develop aquaculture technologies on export-oriented species to facilitate more employment opportunities in the rural sector and to generate valuable foreign exchange in the country, said G. Mohan Kumar, Chairman of Marine Products...

IIT Kharagpur to host aquaculture meet
INDIA - The agricultural and food engineering department of the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur will be hosting a two-day workshop called Sustain-Aqua 2007, beginning today (28 September).

Biotechnology is vital for industry development, says scientists
INDIA - Research should be development orientated with direct socio-economic relevance, according to Dr George John, senior advisor of the Department of Biotechnology. He was speaking at the start of a two day workshop at the Central Institute of Freshwater...