[OANNES Foro] ICSF DC Weekly News Alert from 21 January to 25 January 2013

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*21 January to 25 January 2013*


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Dear Subscriber,

Please find below web links of ICSF DC Weekly News Alert from 21 January to
25 January 2013.

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West Bengal: Online petition for protection of North Bengal wetlands*
http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/online-petition-for-protectionnorth-bengal-wetlands/112028/

Raising concern over the rapid disappearance of wetlands in North Bengal,
conservationists from around the world have started an online petition
demanding urgent action to protect the ecologically sensitive region. 'Save
the Wetlands of North Bengal' has so far been signed by over 36,000 green
activists and will be submitted to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee when it achieves half-a- lakh mark...

*Andhra Pradesh: Drying of fish on road throwing hygiene to winds*
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/drying-of-fish-on-road-throwing-hygiene-to-winds/article4311942.ece

Solid waste management in several parts of the city, particularly in
commercial areas and localities where poorer sections live, needs to be
improved a lot. Sanitation has always been a recurring problem at the area
around Fishing Harbour at Jalaripeta. The drying of fish next to a heap of
garbage raises several questions on hygiene. While the fisherfolk should
not dry the fish on the road, the municipal corporation also should lift
the garbage from such areas more frequently...
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Tamil Nadu: Fishermen oppose Kudankulam project*
http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/fishermen-oppose-kudankulam-project/article4326596.ece

The National Fishermen Forum (NFF) on Sunday decided to observe Monday as
the National Day of Protest against the commissioning of Kudankulam Nuclear
Power Project. A resolution adopted at the general body of the forum said
that the commissioning of the project would ruin the livelihood of hundreds
of fishermen in southern coastal districts of Tamil Nadu. Several cases had
been filed against the fishermen who held peaceful agitations...

*Kerala: Supreme Court’s  Enrica judgment may restrict action against
erring ships*
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/scs-enrica-judgment-may-restrict-action-against-erring-ships/article4333292.ece

The Supreme Court’s judgment on Enrica Lexie last week was unambiguous in
declaring that the Italian marines must stand trial in India for now. But
the Court’s reasoning may have far reaching consequences for the case as
well as for how India can interpret its jurisdiction in waters beyond the
12-nautical mile line from the coast that marks the formal extent of its
territory...
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Maharashtra: Don't categorise fishermen as ‘bulk consumers’: Kamat*
http://zeenews.india.com/news/maharashtra/don-t-categorise-fishermen-as-bulk-consumers-kamat_823839.html

Former Union Minister Gurudas Kamat has appealed to the Centre not to
include fishermen in bulk consumer category and withdraw the hike of Rs 10
per litre in diesel fare.  In a letter to Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily
on Saturday, Kamat demanded that fishermen be removed from the category of
"bulk consumers" to enable them to get diesel for fishing trawlers at the
normal hiked rate of additional 0.50 paise per litre for general consumers
that was announced yesterday...

*Goa: Fish prices rise as trawlers continue strike*
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-26/goa/36563483_1_fish-prices-trawler-owners-menino-afonso

The strike by owners of fishing trawlers is likely to intensify Saturday
afternoon onwards with the Central government yet to respond to their
demand to withdraw the diesel price hike.Mandovi fishermen marketing
cooperative society chairman Menino Afonso said around 80% of trawler
owners have joined the strike, while the remaining 20% boats still out at
sea and have been informed to return to port and join the strike...

*India: India to challenge US petition on shrimp import*
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-05/kochi/36161365_1_cvd-petition-indian-seafood-industry

India will legally challenge the countervailing duty (CVD) petition filed
by the Coalition of Gulf Shrimp Industries (COGSI) in the US, the Seafood
Exporters Association of India (SEAI) said on Friday.  COGSI, a body of
shrimp producers based in the Gulf of Mexico in US, last week filed a
petition, seeking relief from subsidised shrimp imports from seven
countries including India and demanding imposing 21% duty on imports...

*Sri Lanka: Indian Coast Guard arrests 21 Sri Lankan fishermen*
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_13A/Jan19_1358588153CH.php

Jan 19, Chennai: Indian Coast Guard has arrested 21 Sri Lankan fishermen
for allegedly crossing the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) and
entering Indian waters. The 21 fishermen from Trincomalee were travelling
in four boats as they crossed the IMBL and entered Indian waters off the
Andhra Pradesh coast for fishing, according to the Chennai police...

*Sri Lanka: Universities address the concerns of post-war northern fishing
communities and the Palk Bay Indian trawler problem*
http://www.reincorpfish.info/news-and-announcements

The Universities of Jaffna and Ruhuna co-organised an international
workshop on the challenges facing the long suffering fishing communities in
Northern Sri Lanka. The workshop discussed the findings of a two year long
research project on the Palk Bay fishing problem with the partnership of
the University of Jaffna, University of Ruhuna, the Madras Institute of
Development Studies and the University of Amsterdam...
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Bangladesh: Fisheries want Bangladesh workers*
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/332034/50000-workers-from-bangladesh-sought

The fishing industry wants the government to work with authorities in
Bangladesh to supply 50,000 workers to solve a labour shortage in
Thailand's growing fisheries industry. The National Fisheries Association
of Thailand has also proposed that the government consider registering
Rohingya people smuggled into Thailand and detained near the Malaysian
border in Songkhla province as foreign workers for recruitment into the
fishing industry...

*Pakistan: Rehman Malik orders release of all Indian fishermen held in
Pakistani jails*
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rehman-malik-orders-release-of-all-indian-fishermen-held-in-pakistani--jails/1063603/

Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has ordered the release of all
Indian fishermen held in Pakistani jails. India released four Pakistanis,
including a woman, from jail and who have now arrived in Lahore, reports
The Express Tribune. Earlier on Monday, Pakistan had arrested 27 Indian
fishermen for illegally straying into its territorial waters...

*Pakistan: Govts, IFIs collaborate to dam rivers, ruin ecology: PFF*
http://dawn.com/2013/01/24/govts-ifis-collaborate-to-dam-rivers-ruin-ecology-pff/

All governments of the world, including Pakistan’s, and international
financial institutions have collaborated with one another to ruin ecology
of rivers and deltaic regions by imprisoning them with dams in the name of
development, says chairman of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum Syed Mohammad
Ali Shah...

*NFF Letter to Prime Minister of India: On Indian migrant fishermen engaged
in fishing for other countries*
Source: NFF

I beg to bring to your kind notice the following issue that needs for very
urgent intervention of your good self. There are many Indian fishermen
working in Qatar. 29 of them, hailing from Kanniyakumari district of Tamil
Nadu and employed with a Qatar company, were arrested by the Iran Coast
Guard on 11 October when they unknowingly strayed into Iran's territorial
waters with their fishing boats for want of visa. Later on 26th December,
due to the positive response of Government of India to the request of us,
they are released after the company paid the fine.  However, the boat was
not released from Kish Island.

They were initially provided with some provisions by the company. They are
staying in the boat from then and the provision is exhausted. They were not
provided any basic amenities. They are in almost stranded status right now
for over fifteen days and with insufficient provisions. They are literally
dying without food. I am forced to site the example of initiatives taken by
the Italian government in protecting the well being of their mariners
arrested in Kerala. Ministers from Italy came here to visit the two Italian
Mariners who were released even though they are accused of murder. I very
much hope that, for the sake of the women and children of these fishermen,
your good self will be able to order the External Affairs Ministry to send
some special envoy to do the needful to get the fishermen sent back to
India with proper care and as early as possible.

The women and children of the 29 families have decided to go on indefinite
hunger strike from December 17th at Nagercoil demanding the safe return of
their family members held in Kish Island. I very much hope that your good
self would be able to ensure that there is no necessity for them to go on
the indefinite fast. Thanking you in anticipation on behalf of the poor
women and children of stranded fishermen.

M. ILANGO
General Secretary


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