Gangu Kundaikar is a small-framed, saree-clad woman who rises at 3 am every day, wraps a cloth around her waist so fish do not soil her saree and takes a rented tempo to the Malim jetty in Panaji, ...

The central government’s decision to curtail the period of annual ban on fishing by mechanised vessels from 61 to 47 days has evoked mixed reactions among the fishing community in Goa. After the chief ...

Panaji, May 4 (IANS) Goa state Fisheries Minister Vinod Palyekar on Thursday ordered a crackdown on indiscriminate fishing using the two banned techniques of bull trawling and LED fishing and said he ...

Here's a note of caution for all those tourists who head to Goa annually for a bit of sun and a splash in the sea -- marine scientists have said the waters off the state's coast contain alarmingly ...

Panaji, Oct 4 (PTI) The Goa government today appealed to Centre to ban the entry of trawlers from neighbouring Karnataka in the state waters, saying the modern techniques used by these boats are ...

Boat owners in Goa have taken matters into their own hands to start the delayed fishing season. Handicapped by the lack of migrant workers — who had returned to their villages due to the pandemic — ...

Goa government has urged the Centre to enforce a ban on use of LED lights and bull trawling techniques for fishing in coastal states, saying they are harmful to the marine ecology. (Image: Reuters) ...

The 61-day ban on fishing, which has been imposed to facilitate the breeding of fish, came into effect in Goa from yesterday. The ban on fishing was imposed to safeguard fish during their breeding ...

A senior official from the state fisheries department said that there are 897 fishing trawlers operating from different jetties of the coastal state. He said that all the jetties will be sealed during ...

Panaji, April 13 (IANS) Goa has been sanctioned Rs 400 crore by the Central government for setting up of cage fishing infrastructure to boost the coastal state's fishing catch output, Fisheries ...

Video: Goa. fishing net ~ profit by The Source Project (7 min., 25 sec.) After 10 years of working as a photographer and filmmaker in the development sector, Jason Taylor launched The Source Project, ...

Goa: In a tragic incident off the Goa coast on Thursday night, a fishing boat collided with an Indian Navy submarine, sinking the vessel and leaving two fishermen missing. Authorities immediately ...