[OANNES Foro] ICSF DC Weekly News Alert from 12 November to 16 November 2012

Vie Nov 16 03:32:50 PST 2012

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*Weekly News Alert*

*12 November – 16 November 2012*

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Dear Subscriber,

Please find below web links of ICSF DC Weekly News Alert from 12 November
to 16 November 2012.

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Assam: Gogoi asks Fisheries Department to boost fish production*
http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/gogoi-asks-fisheries-department-to-boost-fish-production/78777/

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today asked the Fisheries Department to
step up fish production to meet the increasing demand in the state.
Reviewing the performance of the department at a meeting with its Minister
Basanta Das and other senior officials here, Gogoi emphasised on the need
for production of fish seed locally as well as to procure it from outside
to augment fish production in the state...

*Andaman & Nicobar Island: Major relief for fishermen, loans of 370 tsunami
affected fishermen waived off*
http://andamanchronicle.com/content/view/6918/27/Nov

Port Blair: The Central government has waived the loan together with the
amount of interest as may be outstanding on the date of settlement in
respect of 370 tsunami affected fishermen of the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands.  As on 31-03-2012, tsunami affected fishermen of the Islands had
outstanding loans and interest thereon amounting to Rs. 2.10 crore...

*Odisha; 11 lakh fishermen to get accident insurance cover*
http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/107714-11-lakh-fishermen-to-get-accident-insurance-cover.html

The State Government has decided to cover an estimated 11 lakh poor
fishermen under Group Accident Insurance Scheme as part of a social
security measure. The traditional fishermen involved in fishing in the sea
and rivers as well as those involved in fishing in Chilika will avail the
benefit...
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Tamil Nadu: Shifting sands, a fishing village lost to sea*
http://tnlabour.in/?p=639#more-639

P. Jagan is a kattumaram fisherman, a trade that has changed little in
centuries. Early most mornings, Jagan launches his boat through the
pounding surf and paddles his way to the fishing grounds of his choice. The
sea, it appears, has been kind to him...
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Karnataka: Nilam effect fish prices soar after drop in catch*
http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_nilam-effect-fish-prices-soar-after-drop-in-catch_1764408

After Cyclone Nilam’s departure, strange things are happening on the
Karnataka coast.While the neighbouring Goa has reported jellyfish incursion
into the Mandovi River, Karnataka coastal fishermen have reported sudden
drop in the volumes of catch sending fish prices soaring...

*Goa: Outside trawlers eating into local catch, boat owners tell minister*
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-13/goa/35087340_1_boat-owners-coastal-police-territorial-waters

Illegal fishing activities in Goan waters by boats from other states for
many years have severely affected the catch hauled in by local fishermen
and a continuing trend may signal a crisis, local boat owners have alleged.
Representatives of Goan fishing boat owners' associations called on
fisheries minister Avertano Furtado and narrated their grievances to him on
Monday...

*Maharashtra: Infra projects green trend continues*
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/infra-projects-green-trend-continues/1030745/

MoEF’s expert panel recommends Bandra-Versova sea link for CRZ clearance.
After the Sewri-Nhava Mumbai Trans Harbour Link got a nod from an expert
appraisal committee of the union of Ministry of Environment and Forests
(MoEF) last month, the committee has now recommended a coastal regulation
zone (CRZ) clearance for another sea link proposed for the western
suburbs...

*Gujarat: Pakistan arrests nine Indian fishermen off Gujarat coast*
http://www.rediff.com/news/report/pakistan-arrests-nine-indian-fishermen-off-gujarat-coast/20121113.htm

Nine Indian fishermen were arrested and five of their fishing trawlers
seized by Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) off Jakhau coast in
Gujarat, a fishermen's body claimed on Tuesday.The PMSA yesterday
intercepted six boats, with 30 anglers on board, in the international
waters off Jakhau coast...

*Pakistan: Fifteen Indian fishermen released from Pak jail*
http://zeenews.india.com/news/south-asia/fifteen-indian-fishermen-released-from-pak-jail_810656.html

Karachi: Fifteen Indian fishermen were freed from the district Malir jail
here Sunday by Pakistan as a goodwill gesture and will be repatriated to
India via the Wagah border Monday on the eve of Diwali.  The fishermen were
released from the jail this morning, officials of the Indian High
Commission said...
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Bangladesh: Coastguards rescue 150 fishermen from forest robbers' den*
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=257073

Members of Bangladesh Coastguard (BCG) rescued 150 abducted fishermen
busting a den of forest robbers in Machar Point area of the Sundarbans
under Mongla upazila on Friday night. Lieutenant Commander Mostafizur
Rahman, staff officer (operation) of BCG, Mongla (West Zone), told the news
agency that when the fishermen, on their way to Dublar Char, reached
Bhadrar Khal area of the Sundarbans in the afternoon, a gang swooped on
their trawler...
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West Bengal: Sundarban Matsyajibi Joutha Sangram Committee’s protest
against ban on fishing*
National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF)

With the establishment of Reserve Forest and particularly with the
promulgation of Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) restrictions were imposed on
fishing and other forest dependent livelihood activities. A vast area of
the forest was designated as the ‘core’ area and access has been totally
denied there. Other outer area designated as ‘buffer’ was opened to
fishers, honey and wood collectors with stringent restrictions.

A regime of fines, seizure of boats, nets and catch, cancellation of
permits, threats of imprisonment, abuses and even physical assaults. The
fishers of Sundarban are treated as trespassers in heir own land. The
fishing and other forest dependent communities of Sundarban have resolved
to heighten their protest through hunger strike and free selling of honey
collected from the forest in defiance of the unjust and illegal monopoly of
the forest department.

Before embarking on the next phase of struggle it is imperative to send the
message of the protest and struggle throughout the length and breadth of
the Sundarban covering as many habitations of the forest dependent fishing
and other communities as possible. In the riverine Sundarban, where boats
are the major means of transport, boat campaign is the most useful mode for
an awareness campaign that may be attractive an equipped touch a large
number of habitations and be conducted in a few days period.

The Objective

The Boat Campaign is aimed to

i. Generate widespread mass awareness among the forest dependent people of
Sundarban regarding their traditional and customary rights on the forest
resources and recognition of those rights by the Forest Rights Act 2006.

ii. Take up the problems of implementation of the Forest Rights Act in
Sundarban in the localities and initiate mass interaction to address those
problems.

iii. Sensitize the fishing and other forest dependent communities of
Sundarban to form community based groups to claim their rights and
coordinate their future activities. Campaign Plan A boat tableau decorated
with large banners, flags and posters, equipped with a sound system and
carrying campaign materials like posters/stickers and leaflets will cruise
through the rivers of Sundarban from East to West for 7 (seven) days.

a) The boat will carry a street drama group who will enact a street drama
composed on the natural resources and life and livelihood of the forest
dependent people of Sundarban at the meetings to enhance and facilitate the
scope of the awareness campaign.

b) The tableau will touch around 100 ghats where the significance of Forest
Rights Act and importance of its implementation in Sundarban will be
propagated through speeches accompanied with songs composed on the natural
resources and life and livelihood of the forest dependent people. Leaflets
and posters carrying the message will be distributed and stuck around the
ghats.

Itinerary

14.12.12 Boat Campaign Launching at Canning
15.12.12 Canning – Basanti – Purandar – Morakhali – Gosaba (Night Stay)
16.12.12. Adarsh Vidya Mandir – Bali – Amlamethi – Pakhiralaya (Night Stay)
17.12.12 Dayapur – Rajat Jubille – Luxbagan – Lahiripur (Night Stay)
18.12.12 Satjelia – Kumirmari – Bagna (Night Stay)
19.12.12 Hemnagar – Kalitala – Shamshernagar – Night Journey to Pakhiralaya
20.12.12 Jharkhali – Canning

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