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Articles for Bottom Trawling

Bottom trawling by Indian fishermen must stop: Sri Lanka’s Fisheries Minister
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Bottom trawling by Indian fishermen must stop: Sri Lanka’s Fisheries Minister

The Hindu  

The enduring fisheries conflict in the Palk Bay — which impacts fisher folk of northern Sri Lanka and daily wage fishermen of Tamil Nadu — can be decisively resolved only if the Indian side stops using the destructive bottom-trawling method, according to Sri Lanka’s Minister of Fisheries Ramalingam Chandrasekar. Solving the Indo-Lanka fisheries conflict is part of the NPP government’s …

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Nature groups call for more protection of the UK’s seas as key carbon stores
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Nature groups call for more protection of the UK’s seas as key carbon stores

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A new report on “blue carbon” estimates there are 244 million tonnes of organic carbon locked in the top …

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Sri Lanka top court hears rights petition against Indian fishermen
8 months ago

Sri Lanka top court hears rights petition against Indian fishermen

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court in Colombo yesterday had moved that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs be made a respondent in the fundamental rights petition filed against illegal bottom trawling carried out by the south Indian fishermen in the Sri Lanka waters in the north and northeastern seas. Sri Lankan fishermen have asked authorities to prevent Indian fishermen from engaging in illegal …

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Decoding India-Sri Lanka fishermen issue: A visual guide
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Decoding India-Sri Lanka fishermen issue: A visual guide

India Today  

With general elections approaching, the issue of sporadic arrests of Indian fishermen is heating up in Tamil Nadu’s political arena. “The problem has three interrelated facets: disagreements over Kachchatheevu ; poaching by Indian fishers in Sri Lankan waters; and their use of trawlers, which worsens the crisis,” writes Sohani Bose in a paper for the Observer Research Foundation. According to …

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Unending woes: The Hindu Editorial on bottom trawling and the arrests of Indian fishermen by Sri Lanka
11 months ago

Unending woes: The Hindu Editorial on bottom trawling and the arrests of Indian fishermen by Sri Lanka

The Hindu  

The continuing arrests of fishermen from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry by the Sri Lankan Navy in the Palk Bay, despite diplomatic interventions at the highest level, and the attacks on them mid-sea by armed civilians are a matter of serious concern. No doubt, Sri Lanka is under pressure from its northern province fishermen to act against Tamil Nadu fishermen, who …

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Sri Lanka’s northern fishermen ‘fiercely oppose’ proposal to issue licence to Indian fishermen
1 year, 10 months ago

Sri Lanka’s northern fishermen ‘fiercely oppose’ proposal to issue licence to Indian fishermen

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka’s northern fishermen on Sunday said they “fiercely oppose” the government’s plan to issue licences to Indian fishermen to enter Sri Lankan waters, terming the move a “serious setback” to their nearly 15-year-long struggle. On February 22, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry told Parliament that authorities were looking into possibly issuing licences to Indian fishermen, as part of Sri Lanka’s …

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Fishing industry ‘bulldozing’ seabed in 90% of UK’s protected areas
2 years, 7 months ago

Fishing industry ‘bulldozing’ seabed in 90% of UK’s protected areas

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Bottom-towing took place in 58 out of 64 offshore marine protected areas last year, according to new analysis from …

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Palk Bay fisheries conflict: A tale of competing livelihoods and a depleted catch
2 years, 10 months ago

Palk Bay fisheries conflict: A tale of competing livelihoods and a depleted catch

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Sri Lankan Navy on Saturday arrested 12 Indian fishermen from Rameswaram district, Tamil Nadu, and seized two of their fishing boats on charges of engaging in illegal fishing activity. Although India and Sri Lanka agreed to divide the Strait with an imaginary boundary line in the 1970s —the International Maritime Boundary Line – Indian fishermen, …

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Sea rally in Sri Lanka demands implementation of laws against bottom trawling
3 years, 2 months ago

Sea rally in Sri Lanka demands implementation of laws against bottom trawling

The Hindu  

Dozens of northern fishermen on Sunday set out on boats from the coast of the eastern Mullaitivu district to Point Pedro in Jaffna in the north, demanding that Sri Lankan authorities implement laws banning the destructive bottom trawling method of fishing. On October 13 the Sri Lankan Navy, arrested 23 Indian fishermen and seized two fishing vessels on charges of …

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Bottom trawling must be banned immediately – it’s destroying our oceans
3 years, 8 months ago

Bottom trawling must be banned immediately – it’s destroying our oceans

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Shocking new research in the journal Nature, conducted by 26 marine biologists and climate experts, has revealed that the …

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Fishing boats that dredge their nets release carbon equivalent to aviation
3 years, 9 months ago

Fishing boats that dredge their nets release carbon equivalent to aviation

Firstpost  

They also found that strategically banning fishing in specific areas could increase global fish yields by eight million tonnes. Sea bed bottom trawling produces as much as one billion tonnes of carbon annually — equivalent to all emissions from aviation — according to new research that called Wednesday for greater ocean protection. “Yet every day, we are trawling the seafloor, …

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Palk Bay fishing dispute | Casting the net in a sea of conflict
3 years, 11 months ago

Palk Bay fishing dispute | Casting the net in a sea of conflict

The Hindu  

Samson Darwin was a toddler when his family fled their home in Jaffna in the 1990s, to escape the civil war that was tearing apart Sri Lanka’s north and east. Outraged by the incident, Tamil Nadu fishermen have accused the Sri Lankan Navy, which was patrolling the seas for “poaching” fishing trawlers, of killing the four men. Like Sesu Raja, …

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