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1 month, 3 weeks ago

16 Olive Ridleys freed from trawl net near Ennore

CHENNAI: For the first time since the crisis of mass Olive Ridley turtle deaths broke out, a joint night patrol team on Saturday rescued and released 16 of the endangered turtles entangled in a trawl net off the Chennai coast. Chennai Wildlife Warden Manish Meena told TNIE the patrol team intercepted a trawl boat operating within the prohibited zone of …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

3k turtles may have died in Andhra; 130 more washed up in Chennai

New Indian Express

CHENNAI: The mystery behind mass mortality of Olive Ridley turtles is getting murkier with neighbouring Andhra Pradesh reporting 3,000 deaths, while the toll in Chennai continues to skyrocket despite stringent measures. Speaking to TNIE, AP chief wildlife warden Ajaya Kumar Naik said, “Yes, turtles are dying here, but I don’t have the exact death count. We are working closely with …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Authorities to strengthen enforcement of fisheries regulations to address Olive Ridley turtle deaths

The Hindu

The task force constituted to review the Olive Ridley sea turtle deaths has called for stricter enforcement of fisheries regulations to address the high mortality rate of the species. Led by the Chief Wildlife Warden Rakesh Kumar Dogra, the task force met on Monday for the first time to review the deaths of sea turtles along the Chennai coast. The …

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2 months ago

Authorities ramp up efforts to protect sea turtles as deaths on India’s shores continue to mount

Deccan Chronicle

Bengaluru: Dead sea turtles keep washing ashore on India’s east coast and environmentalists and authorities are trying frantically to stop the number of 600 dead from getting even higher. It’s the biggest number of sea turtle deaths since 2014, when over 900 olive ridley turtles were found dead on India’s southern shores. “Measures to increase fish resources like setting up …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Tamil Nadu junks Turtle Excluder Devices, kills Olive Ridleys en masse

New Indian Express

CHENNAI: Every morning for the past 20 days, Tamil Nadu forest department and turtle conservation volunteers have been burying tens of carcasses of endangered Olive Ridley turtles on Chennai’s shores. While some artisanal fishermen say they never saw such mortality in their lifetime, few others argue the issue got the attention it deserved because the ‘unusual’ rough seas in January …

Tamil Nadu Turtle Nadu Junks

4 months, 1 week ago

Garbage dumpyard in Pacific Ocean is getting bigger and bigger

India Today

A new study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals a disturbing trend in the North Pacific Garbage Patch : centimeter-sized plastic fragments are accumulating at an alarming rate, outpacing the growth of larger plastic debris. The research, conducted by The Ocean Cleanup between 2015 and 2022, found that plastic fragments in the NPGP rose from 2.9kg per square km to …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Police trawl riverbanks in search for mother, 34, missing for three days - as her last known sighting is revealed

Daily Mail

Police divers were today carrying out underwater searches for a missing bride-to-be after finding some of her belongings discarded on a riverbank. Mother of one Victoria Taylor, 34, a nurse, was engaged to be married to her partner Matthew and the couple had just returned from their first family holiday in Majorca. No date had been set but the ceremony …

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6 months ago

How fish with tongue-like legs trawl the sea floor for meals

Salon

Fish evolution is so strange that it's given us species that can count, change color by "seeing" with its skin and even fish that can "sing." "Using this comparative model, we were then able to trace down the piezo-positive mechanosensory neurons and taste receptor-expressing epithelial cells in digging sea robins that were absent in the non-digging species." The research team …

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8 months ago

Fishers in Kozhikode prepare to resume work amid mounting debt

The Hindu

As the trawling ban ends on July 31, preparations are in full swing at all harbours in Kozhikode district to keep boats ready after emergency maintenance work. Fishermen and boat owners from Beypore and Puthiyappa harbours said that a majority of them were in huge debt as they had been borrowing money to repair boats. Some have also secured gold …

Boat Owners

8 months, 1 week ago

Indian seafood industry should brace for challenges ahead, say scientists

The Hindu

Scientists speaking to trawl boat owners in Kochi on Thursday at a workshop focused on installing Turtle Extruder Devices to overcome a U.S. market ban on Indian wild-caught shrimp highlighted more challenges ahead for the Indian seafood industry. The Marine Mammal Protection Act will require all countries exporting seafood to the U.S. market to adhere to the prescribed marine bycatch …

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11 months, 1 week ago

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb says Bondi Junction stabbing offender targeted women as investigators trawl for evidence

ABC

In short: NSW Police has launched Strike Force Mcauley, an investigation into the deaths of six people at Westfield Bondi Junction in a stabbing attack on Saturday. NSW Police has launched Strike Force Mcauley, an investigation into the deaths of six people at Westfield Bondi Junction in a stabbing attack on Saturday. NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said it's "obvious" …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Irish police trawl through 6,000 hours of CCTV footage in Dublin riots probe

The Independent

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1 year, 6 months ago

Morocco earthquake death toll climbs to over 2,000 amid fears number will rise even further as nation declares three days of national mourning and rescuers trawl through rubble in Marrakesh as hopes f

Daily Mail

Morocco has declared three days of national mourning after an earthquake killed at least 2,000 people - with Britons among those missing amid fears the death toll could climb even higher. Rescuers use a small excavator to search for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed house in Moulay Brahim, Al Haouz province, on September 9 The army recovers the …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Morocco earthquake death toll climbs to over 1,000 as tourists rush to donate blood and rescuers trawl through rubble in Marrakesh for survivors after massive 7.2 magnitude quake

Daily Mail

A desperate search for survivors is underway this morning following Morocco's biggest earthquake in over 120 years that struck south of Marrakesh last night, killing at least 1,037 people and leaving more than 1,200 injured, 721 critically. If safe to do so, email elizabeth.haigh@mailonline.co.uk A man walks with his belongings through the rubble in an alleyway in the earthquake-damaged old …

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2 years, 6 months ago

‘We may never find them’: Desperate Ukrainians forced to trawl through dead looking for lost loved ones

The Independent

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4 years, 8 months ago

Shrewsbury maternity scandal: Hundreds more cases revealed after trawl of paper records

The Independent

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6 years ago

Fishermen of deep sea trawl boats and purse seine vessels clash

The Hindu

There were scuffles between the fishermen operating deep sea trawl boats and the fishermen operating purse seine boats in front of the Fisheries Department Office at the Malpe Fisheries Harbour here on Tuesday. The deep sea trawl boat fishermen were staging a protest in front of the Fisheries Department Office after closing the gate of the harbour. Meanwhile, the deep …

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6 years, 5 months ago

Victorian trawl fishers cheer as massive seismic survey rejected

ABC

The trawl fishing industry is relieved the national offshore regulator has rejected plans for a massive seismic survey off the Victorian coast. CGG Services applied to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority for a permit to survey off the coast of Ninety Mile beach over a seven-month period. Survey would have 'shut down fisheries': Industry head South …

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7 years, 7 months ago

Trawl ban ends; GST fears haunt fisherfolk

Deccan Chronicle

KOLLAM: With the 47-day-long trawling ban ending on Monday midnight, fisherfolk are dogged by uncertainty over the pricing of fishing equipment in the post-GST regime. Non-taxable items including fish products, fishing equipment like nets, hooks, and ropes have become taxable, which has directly impacted the lives of these fishermen. Under GST, nylon fishing ropes attract 18 per cent GST which …

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8 years, 7 months ago

Gulf of Carpentaria trawl operators on track to cut bycatch by one third with new prawn net devices

ABC

Trawler operators in the Gulf of Carpentaria believe they're on track to achieving an ambitious target of cutting bycatch by 30 per cent in three years. "It's a simple device, it's a fish eye that's been modified and we ended up with 41 per cent bycatch reduction which is massive," Ms Laird said. The northern prawn fishery hopes to reduce …

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8 years, 9 months ago

Kollam braces for monsoon trawl ban

Deccan Chronicle

Kollam: The fishermen here are getting ready for the 47-day trawling ban from June 14 midnight along the 590-km coastline in the state. The district administration in coordination with various departments, including marine enforcement, fisheries, civil supplies and various trade unions of fishermen, has verified the steps taken to enforce the ban. All the fuel pumps in the coastal belt …

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9 years ago

Police in two countries trawl DNA records in 1976 murder case

Dutch News

Police in the Netherlands and Germany are to carry out a search of DNA databases as they try to solve a 40-year-old murder case, Nos reported on Monday. The Midden-Nederland police division set up a cold case team and the murder has featured in the police appeal show Opsporing Verzocht and its German equivalent. Dutch and German authorities have now …

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10 years, 2 months ago

Rare species of Frilled Shark dating back to 80 million years caught in Australia

India Today

A rare, 300-toothed frilled shark, whose species dates back to 80 million years was caught in a fishing trawler, off the waters of Victoria, Australia in December 2014. About the Frilled Shark: The frilled shark is one of two extant species of shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae, with a wide but patchy distribution in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It …

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10 years, 9 months ago

Trawl ban pushes up fish prices

The Hindu

The 47-day trawl ban that took effect on the midnight of June 14 and rough sea that has restricted fishing activities have pushed up fish prices, which were already high under a spell of shortage in landings in the pre-trawl ban period. The trawl ban keeps roughly 3,500 vessels off the waters, naturally bringing down the quantum of fish landings. …

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16 Olive Ridleys freed from trawl net near Ennore

3k turtles may have died in Andhra; 130 more washed up in Chennai

Authorities to strengthen enforcement of fisheries regulations to address Olive Ridley turtle deaths

Authorities ramp up efforts to protect sea turtles as deaths on India’s shores continue to mount

Tamil Nadu junks Turtle Excluder Devices, kills Olive Ridleys en masse

Garbage dumpyard in Pacific Ocean is getting bigger and bigger

Police trawl riverbanks in search for mother, 34, missing for three days - as her last known sighting is revealed

How fish with tongue-like legs trawl the sea floor for meals

Fishers in Kozhikode prepare to resume work amid mounting debt

Indian seafood industry should brace for challenges ahead, say scientists

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb says Bondi Junction stabbing offender targeted women as investigators trawl for evidence

Irish police trawl through 6,000 hours of CCTV footage in Dublin riots probe

Morocco earthquake death toll climbs to over 2,000 amid fears number will rise even further as nation declares three days of national mourning and rescuers trawl through rubble in Marrakesh as hopes f

Morocco earthquake death toll climbs to over 1,000 as tourists rush to donate blood and rescuers trawl through rubble in Marrakesh for survivors after massive 7.2 magnitude quake

‘We may never find them’: Desperate Ukrainians forced to trawl through dead looking for lost loved ones

Shrewsbury maternity scandal: Hundreds more cases revealed after trawl of paper records

Fishermen of deep sea trawl boats and purse seine vessels clash

Victorian trawl fishers cheer as massive seismic survey rejected

Trawl ban ends; GST fears haunt fisherfolk

Gulf of Carpentaria trawl operators on track to cut bycatch by one third with new prawn net devices

Kollam braces for monsoon trawl ban

Police in two countries trawl DNA records in 1976 murder case

Rare species of Frilled Shark dating back to 80 million years caught in Australia

Trawl ban pushes up fish prices