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...

MPEDA stepping up thrust on aquaculture tech
INDIA - The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) is intensifying efforts to foster aquaculture technologies on export-oriented species with the twin objectives of enabling more employment opportunities in the rural sector and generating...

Marine exports may miss target as rupee rises against dollar
INDIA - With the rupee appreciating by more than 11% this year, the the income of exporters has gone down drastically because their earnings are only in dollars

India to benefit from high shrimp duty on Vietnam
INDIA - In a fillip to the Indian marine industry, the US Department of Commerce (DoC) has maintained 25.76 per cent of anti-dumping duty on shrimp imports from Vietnam, which is higher than the duty on Indian exports.

Andhra shrimp farmers in troubled waters
INDIA - Shrimp hatcheries in Andhra Pradesh are reeling under severe losses due to lack of demand and a strengthening rupee.

Pallo fish decline due to water shortage
HYDERABAD - The shortage of water in Indus and heavy fishing pressure from local fishermen are the main reasons of decline of Pallo species’ population says Prof Dr Naeem Tariq Narejo of Aquaculture Department of Freshwater Biology and Fisheries of University...

Floods sink fish farmers
Farmers engaged in pisciculture have been dealt a double blow. If the Barak and its tributaries have swamped their fisheries, loans from financial institutions have left them neck deep in debt.

Aquaculture gaining in prominence
US - Aquaculture will be the mainstay of fish and fish-based production the world over, according to Kristjan Thorarinn Davidsson, managing director and head of global seafood, Glitnir Bank, one of the three major commercial banks of Iceland.

US slashes shrimp duty rates after first review
INDIA - The US Department of Commerce (DoC) has announced the final rates of shrimp anti-dumping duties, according to its first administrative review, which covers the period from 4 August 2004, to 31 January 2006.

MPEDA to promote 'cage' aquaculture
INDIA - India's government trade promotion body, Marine Products Development Authority (MPEDA), will promote cage fish farming, a system prevalent in Vietnam and Scandinavian countries.

Annul trout fish prod touches 60 lakh
INDIA - In view of the increased demand for trout fish in the state, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Legislative Assembly has directed the Fisheries Department to take steps to increase its production.

Business dries up for Orissa's dry fish producers
INDIA - Thousands of fishermen in Orissa who once had a flourishing business in dry fish - considered a delicacy in some parts of India - have now fallen upon bad times.

Surinder Sud: The blue revolution strategy
INDIA - How the National Fisheries Development Board plans to make India's fisheries a success.

Coordination panel flays move to import fish
INDIA - The Kerala Fisheries Coordination Committee, representing stake-holders in the fishing industry, has opposed the duty-free import of fish from European Union countries.

US slashes shrimp import duty
INDIA - Indian marine exports to the US will get a boost as the US Department of Commerce (DoC) has reduced the anti-dumping duty on shrimps by 3.32 per cent.

Stiff Australian norms to hit prawn exporters
INDIA - India will be in a tight spot as Australia has ushered in stringent norms on importing raw prawns. Many marine products exporters will be practically evicted from the Australian market as adhering to the recently announced quality measures will...