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The Palk Bay and the Gulf of Mannar have long served as rich fishing grounds, providing bountiful harvests to Sri Lanka’s ...
On at least four occasions, the same fishing boats killed Hector’s dolphins then went out and killed more. Despite the ...
Alaska pollock is one of the world’s most valuable fisheries, due to the enormous annual harvest volume and the versatility ...
to reverse the effects of overfishing and give marine habitats and fish populations a fighting chance to regenerate. The looming ban on bottom trawling is the latest threat to Malaysia’s ...
Sri Lanka banned bottom trawling in 2017, following a private member’s bill moved by Mr. Sumanthiran, a former MP of Jaffna. India currently follows a seasonal ban on fishing along its east ...
Green groups warn 'destructive' method of bottom-trawling the seabed to catch prawns for scampi is unsustainable.
These fishing methods in these areas must simply ... the report does confirm that bottom trawling kills Hector’s dolphins - a fact not accounted for in previous modeling, not addressed in ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake spoke about illegal fishing by Indian boats in the island nation’s ...
The Indians claim fishing in our waters to be their “traditional right ... Even at least as far as stopping bottom trawling, illegal on our side though not in India’s goes?
In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...
The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) has announced that enhanced Marine Protection Area (MPA ...