Thousands of ocean fishing boats could be using forced labour. We used AI, satellite data to find them

Up to 100,000 individuals may have been victims of forced labour between 2012 and 2018 on fishing ships

US-China fight over fishing is really about world domination

In sending its fishermen far and wide, Beijing has, wittingly or not, followed America’s lead

We have international laws to stop plastic pollution from fishing vessels now. Why are we not enforcing them?

It is hard to monitor and enforce the prohibition on plastic pollution from vessels on the high seas

Net Gain: A photo essay on riverine Assam

How and where fishing nets of diverse shapes and varying mesh sizes are used in riverine Assam 

Aid to Odisha fisherfolk doubled for fishing ban to save turtles; Is it enough?

7-month ban during nesting period of Olive Ridley turtles; Even doubled amount of Rs 15,000 not enough compared with market rates, say fisherfolk;…

Using insecticide-treated mosquito nets for fishing could lead to collapse of fisheries & health hazards

A combinations of insecticides from the nets could also end up in the waterways  

Governments should ensure sustainable livelihood for India’s fisherfolk

There are instances of fishermen being threatened with guns for entering into channels constructed by the port authorities 

World Sea Turtle Day 2022: Here are 10 ways in which we can prevent them from becoming bycatch

Collaboration is needed to develop strategies that reduce the risk of sea turtle entanglement in fishing gear, while still maintaining nutrition, …

Unique programme in Bangladesh shows the way to wetland management

The project to conserve the biodiversity of the Tanguar Haor in northeastern Bangladesh has brought rewards

The mystery of the aquadeaths

One of the most lucrative pisciculture activities today, shrimp cultivation in India was recently given a devastating body blow by a mysterious …

Home coming

After initial doubts over whether the turtles would retain Orissa as the site of their annual nesting exercise, the reptiles return for the …

Fishing for solutions

Canada and the European Union silence their cannons in their face-off over Atlantic fishing grounds

US imports 6 million tropical fish exposed to cyanide poisoning

For every cyanide-exposed fish that makes it to an aquarium, several others die even before they are purchased 

Neither the city nor the sea will relent

As a result of climate change and uneven development, fishing communities in Chennai are caught between a seaward moving land and a landward …

Global Conservator

The US is taking its role as the protector of sea turtles worldwide too seriously, ignoring some important factors

Fish in troubled waters

Several fish species in Kerala are threatened by overfishing and the release of effluents in the coastal waters

Activists find flaws with Australia’s new ban on supertrawlers

India’s new guidelines on deep sea fishing by big vessels have left many environmentalists irked

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 25, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

What is killing Chennai’s Olive Ridley turtles?

Small- and large-scale fishers as well as government officials keep shifting blame for the fatalities

Rising surface temperature threatens Africa's blue economy

Even as West Africa struggles to plug rampant illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, rising sea surface temperature poses new challenges

Lobsters versus right whales: The latest chapter in a long quest to make fishing more sustainable

Disputes over fishing gear and bycatch have involved consumers, commercial fishermen, recreational anglers and environmentalists; more often than …

International pact to tackle illegal fishing gathers momentum

Agreement promotes collaboration among fishermen, port authorities and coast guards to strengthen inspection at ports and on fishing vessels

Fishing quotas to be curtailed

Sinking "straddling" fish stocks find chances of survival as an international treaty is approved to check overfishing

The ‘forgotten’ water ecosystems of Mumbai

City’s water systems need urgent attention to build resilience against climate-related uncertainties 

Seabed mining could sink the fishing industry

If unchecked, deep sea mining could impact fish stocks and Pacific Island communities along with it.