[OANNES Foro] ICSF DC Weekly News Alert from 13 May to 17 May 2013

Vie Mayo 17 02:46:59 PDT 2013

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May 2013.

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Andaman and Nicobar Is.: Ministry agrees to construct fish landing jetties,
MP’s efforts yield results*
http://www.andamanchronicle.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2636:ministry-agrees-to-construct-fish-landing-jetties-mp-s-efforts-yield-results&catid=49:highlight&Itemid=200

Port Blair, May 13: Responding to the demand raised by the Member of
Parliament under Rule 377 in the Lok Sabha on 5th March 2013 regarding
implementation of the decision taken in the 10th Island Development
Authority (IDA) meeting regarding construction of Fish Landing Jetties
(FLJS) in A&N Islands by the ALHW related to the Ministry, the Minister of
Shipping, GoI has informed the MP on 29th April 2013 that out of total of
19 Fish Landing Centres proposed for construction by the Administration, 4
FLJs at Junglighat, Rangat, Mayabunder and Diglipur have been completed and
one FLJ at Yeratta is nearing completion...
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Madhya Pradesh: Fisheries Department finds no takers for fish seeds in
Mandya district*
http://newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/Fisheries-Department-finds-no-takers-for-fish-seeds-in-Mandya-district/2013/05/17/article1593826.ece

Almost all the water tanks in the district have dried up due to lack of
rain and drought. This has badly affected the Fisheries Department as there
are no takers for the fish seeds. The breeding of fish, which generally
starts from May every year, is yet to take off due to scarcity of water. As
many as 173 tanks come under the department, 6 under the Forest Department
and 688 minor tanks are controlled by the gram panchayat(891 in total)...
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West Bengal: Build sanctuaries to save hilsa: Bengal scientists*
http://www.firstpost.com/india/build-sanctuaries-to-save-hilsa-bengal-scientists-777731.html

Kolkata: To prevent the rapid decline in numbers of hilsa in Indian waters,
West Bengal scientists have proposed creating sanctuaries to thwart
indiscriminate fishing and promote breeding of the fish – considered a
delicacy in Bengali cuisine. A study by researchers from India and
Bangladesh has identified three breeding grounds in the state where
sanctuaries can be built to augment free breeding of the prized fish...
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Odisha: Fishing profession fast waning in Odisha*
http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Shownews.asp?newsid=22432

Report by Pradeep Baisakh, Bhubaneswar: “Before ten years a single venture
into the sea would deliver variety of fishes in large quantities. And there
were seasonality in availability of different types of fishes. But now the
quantity and variety have gone down drastically.” Says M Kamama, a telugu
fisherwomen from Ganjam district of Odisha.  Several fish-worker
communities along Odisha 480 kilo meter long coast who have been earning
their livelihood from inland, blackish water and marine fishing, are fast
leaving their profession and migrating out in search of work...

*Andhra Pradesh: Administration takes serious view of fishponds in Kolleru
Wildlife Sanctuary*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/administration-takes-serious-view-of-fishponds-in-kolleru-wildlife-sanctuary/article4716492.ece

The West Godavari district administration finds itself in a tight spot over
re-emergence of fishponds in the plus five contours of the Kolleru Wildlife
Sanctuary (KWS), negating the very objective of the operation Kolleru
programme undertaken by the State government in 2006 in line with a court
direction. Collector G. Vanimohan on Tuesday cracked the whip on the
field-level official machinery reportedly found guilty of laxity in
executing the court orders...

*Tamil Nadu: Notable fishermen’s association joins HSI/India in calling for
shark ‘fins naturally attached’ policy*
http://www.hsi.org/world/india/news/releases/2013/05/india_fisherman_oppose_shark_finning_050913.html

New Delhi—In a letter to India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests, the
Association of Deep Sea Going Artisanal Fishermen calls on the government
to adopt a ‘fins naturally attached’ policy in support of Humane Society
International/India’s campaign to end the cruel and wasteful practice of
shark finning. Shark finning involves the removal of fins from live sharks
and subsequent disposal of the animals back into the ocean...
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Kerala: Search is on for a substitute for sea wall*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/search-is-on-for-a-substitute-for-sea-wall/article4710390.ece

With the South West monsoon just weeks away, hundreds of fishermen and
their families are bracing themselves to face the fury of the sea, even as
large stretches of the coast remain vulnerable to heavy erosion in the
absence of an integrated, scientifically designed protection strategy...

*Kerala: Stakeholders flay trawl ban report*
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/stakeholders-flay-trawl-ban-report/article4714064.ece

Major stakeholders in the fisheries sector have opposed the recommendations
for modifying the annual monsoon trawl ban. The ban had been in force for
the past 25 years in the State. An expert committee appointed by the State
government had suggested extending the trawl ban from 47 to 75 days for the
mechanised sector besides introducing a 60-day ban for traditional
fishermen...

*Karnataka: Fish getting out of common man's reach*
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Fish-getting-out-of-common-mans-reach/articleshow/20059352.cms

Mangalore: Inflation has hit the sea food industry and fish is increasingly
getting out of reach of the common man. From January this year, the rates
of fish have been on the rise. The reason that is being attributed to it is
the rise in prices of fuel, raw materials, crew salary and ice blocks...

*Goa: Cops to recover boat off Goa coast*
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/cops-to-recover-boat-off-goa-coast/1115468/

Yellow gate police will conduct a panchnama nearly 14 nautical miles off
the Goa Coast and recover the fishing boat Sea Messiah, which sunk after a
Coast Guard patrolling boat had collided with it, killing five fishermen on
April 25. "We had taken an engineer along to examine ICGS Vaibhav. We found
that it had scratch marks made by a wooden boat...
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Maharashtra: HC raps BMC for CRZ violations*
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/hc-raps-bmc-for-crz-violations-113050900804_1.html

The Bombay High Court today came down heavily on the Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC) for allegedly violating several norms pertaining to
Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and for dumping garbage on wetlands and
mangroves in suburban Kanjur Marg...

*India: ILO global forum discusses decent work in the fishing industry*
http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/20236/ilo-global-forum-discusses-decent-work-in-the-fishing-industry

Global - Government, employer and worker delegates meeting at ILO
headquarters will consider ways to promote decent work in the fishing
industry through the implementation and ratification of the ILO’s Work in
Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188). From 15 to 17 May, delegates will
discuss how this Convention can be used as a tool to improve working
conditions and to help address major challenges in the industry...

*India: 'CMFRI should help States frame maritime policies’*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/cmfri-should-help-states-frame-maritime-policies/article4713491.ece

N.G.K. Pillai has had a distinguished career as a marine fisheries
researcher, serving CMFRI between 1978 and 2010. He joined the institute as
a young researcher and retired as its director in-charge. He says CMFRI has
grown into a repository of a large volume of priceless data on marine
fisheries. In fact, he says that no Indian Ocean rim country has as much
data as compiled and generated by CMFRI...

*Bangladesh and Myanmar: Bangladesh, Myanmar relieved as cyclone fizzles*
http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Bangladesh-Myanmar-relieved-as-cyclone-fizzles-4520804.php

A once-fearsome cyclone that was threatening Bangladesh and Myanmar
dissipated quickly, causing some deaths but largely relieving authorities
who had told more than 1 million people to leave vulnerable coastal areas
in preparation for a far worse storm. Cyclone Mahasan lost power as it shed
huge amounts of rain and then veered west of its predicted path, sparing
major Bangladeshi population areas, including Chittagong and the seaside
resort of Cox's Bazar, said Mohammad Shah Alam, director of the Bangladesh
Meteorological Department...
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Bangladesh: Cyclone Mahasen batters Bangladesh; 1 million flee*
http://www.winknews.com/National-World/2013-05-16/Cyclone-Mahasen-batters-Bangladesh-1-million-flee#.UZWyL0pK1TA

Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on Thursday,
lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that
flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than 1
million people. The main section of the storm reached land Thursday and
immediately began weakening, according to Mohammad Shah Alam, director of
the Bangladesh Meteorological Department...

*Myanmar budgets US$700m earning from fishery export *
http://www.elevenmyanmar.com/business/3414-myanmar-budgets-us-700m-earning-from-fishery-export

Myanmar has set a targe of US$700 million from fishery export for the
fiscal year 2013-14, which is the same amount with previous year although
it was not achieved then, according the Department of Fisheries. The
country is expected to earn $260 million from the border trade of fishery
products and $440 million from that of normal sea trade this year,
according to the report from the department...
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Sri Lanka; Massive poaching brings “no catch” threat to Sri Lanka’s
fishermen *
http://www.dailynews.lk/2013/05/11/fea03.asp

The Sri Lankan waters off the northern coast of the island – between India
and this country – may well be the most poached fishing grounds in the
world to judge by the numbers of Tamil Nadu and other South Indian fishing
craft who enter this area each day. Naval observation at sea and satellite
images indicate that anything from 500 to even more than 1,000 fishing
craft from South India enter these water each day...

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