Fishing
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Japan seizes Chinese fishing boat inside its economic waters amid rift with Beijing
Japan’s fisheries agency said the vessel failed to comply with an order to stop. The incident comes weeks afte…
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The bird people of Lake Manchar: surviving in a vanishing oasis
The Mohana of Pakistan’s Sindh province once thrived on the lake but pollution and drought have caused the fra…
- Animals, Coastlines, Environment, Fishing, India, International law, Law, Marine life, Plastics, Pollution, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, United Nations, Water, Wildlife, World news
Buoyant, the size of a lentil and almost impossible to recover: how nurdles are polluting the oceans
Millions of the tiny plastic pellets are being washed up on the coast of Kerala in India in the latest in a se…
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Once named world’s ugliest animal, blobfish wins New Zealand’s fish of the year
Made up of blobby tissue and living deep in the ocean, the distinctive species beat the longfin eel and pygmy …
- Animals, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Fishing, India, Marine life, Oceans, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
More than 1,100 dead sea turtles washed up along southern India’s coastline
The mass death of once-endangered olive ridley turtles in January has prompted an increase in wildlife patrols…
- Animals, Antarctica, Australia news, China, Conservation, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Food, Marine life, Russia, Wildlife, World news
‘Very bad precedent’: China and Russia team up to undermine krill fishing restrictions in Antarctica
Conservationists warn actions and ambitions of two super powers could lead to overexploitation of vital food s…
- Business, Coal, Conservation, Energy, Environment, Environmental activism, Fishing, Fishing industry, Global development, Global economy, India, Marine life, Protest, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World Bank, World news
The Fisherman and the Banker: film charts Indian fishers’ fight with a giant
Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant’s impact on thei…
- Animals, Biodiversity, Business, Conservation, Culture, Documentary films, Environment, Film, Fishing, Food, India, Marine life, South and Central Asia, Tata, Wildlife, World news
The Fisherman and the Banker review – a coastal community’s astonishing fight for justice
Shot over 10 years, Sheena Sumaria’s documentary follows an Indian fishing village as it takes on global finan…
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Waves of change: Japan’s female fishers fill the gap in a struggling industry
Although women are helping to address a desperate labour shortage, they face resistance in a sector dominated …
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‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknown
The sardines and mackerel were found floating on the surface of the sea near the fishing port of Hakodate in H…
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‘Everything is destroyed’: dynamite use sends shockwaves through fishing industries
Using explosives is illegal, wasteful and devastating to marine life and people’s livelihoods. Yet in Sri Lank…
- Asia Pacific, Fishing, Fukushima, Japan, Pacific islands, Pacific Islands Forum, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu
‘We depend on our beautiful reefs’: Fukushima water release plan sparks concern across Pacific
Some fishers say they lack information and worry about Japan’s plan to discharge treated wastewater into the s…
- Animals, Conservation, Culture, Documentary films, Environment, Film, Fishing, Food, India, Marine life, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
Against the Tide review – old ways vs the new in a study of modern Indian fisherfolk
Seafaring friends from Mumbai cope with a changing climate and an unforgiving economy in different ways in Sar…
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Japan’s ‘toxic’ dolphin meat contains mercury up to 100 times safe level, test shows
Exclusive: Conservation group Action for Dolphins has lodged a complaint with police, demanding the meat be re…
- Animals, Business, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Fishing industry, Marine life, Oceans, Plastics, Pollution, Shipping industry, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Wildlife, World news
‘Nurdles are everywhere’: how plastic pellets ravaged a Sri Lankan paradise
The country’s golden beaches have turned black as debris released from a sunken ship continues to wreak enviro…