[OANNES Foro] ICSF DC Weekly News Alert from 05 November to 09 November 2012

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Please find below web links of ICSF DC Weekly News Alert from 05 November
to 09 November 2012.

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*West Bengal: Fish production in West Bengal may cross 2K metric tons by
2015: Assocham*
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/cons-products/food/fish-production-in-west-bengal-may-cross-2k-metric-tons-by-2015-assocham/articleshow/17112848.cms

Kolkata: Apex industry body Assocham on Tuesday suggested the West Bengal
government to integrate a comprehensive promotional plan in its policies to
spur fish production and raise the compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of
fish production in the state to about 7% from the current level of about
5%...

*Odisha: Fishermen livelihood during ‘ban’ debated*
http://newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/article1326563.ece

The issue of livelihood support for traditional fishermen inhabiting the
Odisha coast, mainly near the Olive Ridley nesting sites, rocked the first
stakeholders meeting on conservation of the endangered marine species here
on Saturday. While the fishermen communities demanded relaxation in the
fishing regulations and immediate implementation of rehabilitation schemes,
the meeting remained inconclusive over several issues like the eligible
fishermen families as well as legal provisions of fishing...

*Andhra Pradesh: Offset loss suffered by fishermen during cyclones’*
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/offset-loss-suffered-by-fishermen-during-cyclones/article4070501.ece

CITU national president A.K. Padmanabhan on Monday demanded that the
government offset the loss suffered by fishermen during cyclones. “Whether
it is tsunami or cyclonic storms Thane or Nilam, fishermen are advised not
to venture into sea. The powers-that-be should understand how they will
make both ends met without succour when they have no income,” he said...

*Tamil Nadu: When fishermen risked their livelihood to save seamen*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/when-fishermen-risked-their-livelihood-to-save-seamen/article4063587.ece?textsize=small&test=2

Vadivelu (29) of Ururkuppam and his friends have not gone into the sea for
fishing for three days now. The reason: cyclone Nilam destroyed their boats
and nets. While others in the village were busy safeguarding their assets
when stormy winds swept the coast on Wednesday, Vadivelu, Madhan, Kalaimani
and Udayamoorthy embarked on a mission to rescue 22 sailors who were
trapped between their grounded ship and shores...

*Kerala: 56 Indian fishermen in Iranian prison*
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/56-Indian-fishermen-in-Iranian-prison/articleshow/17120188.cms

Thiruvananthapuram: As many as 56 fishermen from India have been detained
by the Iran government authorities at the Pandher fishing harbour of Ikkish
island in Iran, on charges that they have crossed the Iran international
maritime border while fishing in the Qatar Sea since October 10 . Among
them, 10 are from Thiruvananthapuram and 46 Tamil Nadu...

*Karnataka: Dwindling cuttlefish catch worries local fishermen *
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/dwindling-cuttlefish-catch-worries-local-fishermen/article4064310.ece

Expressing serious concern over “dwindling catch” of cuttlefish – it
fetches over Rs. 150 a kg in domestic market and is exported at a far
higher rate – fishermen have threatened to launch agitation if illegal
fishing of the species is not curbed. The fishermen fear cuttlefish would
vanish from the west coast if the use of a banned method to catch it
allegedly resorted to by fishermen from other States is not stopped
immediately...

*Maharashtra: Fishermen get biometric IDs*
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Fishermen-get-biometric-IDs/articleshow/17135652.cms

Mumbai: Four years after the 26/11 terror attacks, which prompted a move to
bolster security along India's vast coastline and protect those fishing
near international waters, fishermen in Utan, Bhayander (W), were finally
issued biometric cards this month. In the first phase of the project, 6,000
cards will be issued to fishermen in Thane taluka...

*India: BJP woos fishermen with promises of loan, job quota*
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/bjp-woos-fishermen-with-promises-of-loan-job-quota/articleshow/17103027.cms

New Delhi: With the aim of wooing the nearly four crore strong fishermen
community, BJP today unveiled a "national policy" aimed at improving their
economic condition and dealing with their problems and promised to
implement it if voted back to power...

*India: At sea over marine conservation *
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/at-sea-over-marine-conservation/article4068045.ece

What does 50 million U.S. dollars get you? The eleventh Conference of
Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has just concluded
in Hyderabad this October. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has made the
“Hyderabad Pledge” of $50 million for biodiversity conservation, and
enhancing “human and technical capacity” for conservation...

*India: Government action sought to secure release of fishermen*
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=541429&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16

South Asian Fishermen’s Fraternity (SAFF), a group championing issues
concerning fishermen from India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan working mainly in
the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea have made a renewed appeal to Indian and
Qatari authorities to secure the release of 59 fishermen currently held by
Iranian coastguards for straying into the country’s territorial waters...

*Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka military interference deprives livelihood of Tamil
fisher families in Mannaar*
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=35731

More than 2,000 families dependent of fishing as their livelihood at
Panangkaddik-koddu, a coastal village situated in Mannaar division of
Mannaar district, have complained to the Sri Lankan Government Agent Sarath
Raveendra that the SL military officials at Tha'l'laadi military base have
provided 108 additional permits to Sinhala fishermen apart from the 65
permits that have been provided by the SL minister for fisheries within the
last 2 months...

*Bangladesh: 7 more Bangladeshi fishermen rescued from Odisha*
http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/7-more-bangladeshi-fishermen-rescuedodisha/75467/

Seven more fishermen from Bangladesh, who were in their defunct boat inside
the deep sea, were rescued by the local fishermen of Podampeta in Odisha's
Ganjam district today. While one of them was admitted at the hospital at
Chhatrapur due to fever, the condition of other Bangladeshi nationals is
good, said inspector in-charge marine police station Ashok Kumar Parida...

*Maldives: Pole and line fishing – catching tuna one by one*
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/oceans/pole-and-line-fishing-catching-tuna-one-by-one-20121102

Today I saw a tonne of tuna. Literally. I witnessed every tuna landed on a
pole and line fishing trip in the Maldives. It was a relatively slow day,
1.3 tonnes of tuna to be precise. A good day starts around 5 tonnes, but
conditions were rough out there. And competition was stiff from the other
pole and line boats, known as dhonis, fishing near us...


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