Tag: Fishermen

Bhubaneswar: The local Met office has predicted heavy rainfall in north and coastal Odisha in the next 24 hours. A Met release this afternoon said the low pressure area formed over north Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood yesterday has turned into a well marked low pressure area over northwest Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood at […]

Bhubaneswar: Heavy rains will lash most parts of interior Odisha in the next 24 hours as the low pressure has moved to Madhya Pradesh, the local Met office said today. In a release this afternoon, the Met office has said the low pressure, which had centred over north Odisha and adjoining Jharkhand, has now moved […]

Bhubaneswar: Heavy rainfall will lash most parts of coastal and north Odisha in the next 24 hours, the local Met office said in a release this afternoon. As per the release, yesterday’s low pressure area over northwest Bay of Bengal off north Odisha-West Bengal coast lay centred over north Chhattisgarh and its neighbourhood at about […]

Paradip: Local fishermen caught a 5-feet long estuarine crocodile from Jatadhari river mouth today and handed it over to the Forest department today. According to reports, a local fisherman, Shankar Behera, was fishing in the river mouth early this morning when an estuarine crocodile got stuck in his fishing net. Apprehending that the crocodile might […]

Paradip: Two fishermen went missing after their boat overturned and sank in the sea near this port town today, marine police said. The boat carrying seven fishermen was returning after a fishing voyage when the mishap took place close to the shore, said Manmohan Choudhury, Inspector of Marine Police Station here. While five fishermen managed […]

New Delhi: Union Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday launched ‘Sagar Vani’ system to communicate and help the coastal community, especially fishermen, with advisories and warnings related to the safety at sea. The Integrated Information Dissemination System (IDS) ‘Sagar Vani’, a first in India, was launched as the Minister inaugurated […]

Rameswaram: Eight fishermen from Tamil Nadu were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly fishing in their territorial waters off Thalaimannar coast today, the police said here today. According to information reaching here, the Sri Lankan Navy also seized the boat and have taken the fishermen to Thalaimannar district naval camp, they said. The […]

Kendrapara: Thirty-two fishermen were taken into custody by Forest Department personnel for carrying out unlawful fishing activity along the Gahirmatha marine sanctuary in Odisha. Four fishing trawlers were seized along the prohibited marine sanctuary area near unmanned Nasi Island by the patrolling unit engaged by the Forest Department, a forest official said. Prohibition on sea […]

Livelihood of around 30,000 traditional fishermen in 12 villages of Ganjam district has been threatened due to the creation of a sandbar on the channel connecting the fishing jetty at Arjeepalli

Kendrapara: Odisha government has renewed its drive to cover seagoing fishermen under an advanced bio-metric identification card system to invigorate coastal security mechanism.

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Rivers, creeks and prawn enclosures dot the rural landscape as one moves beyond Rajnagar towards Talchua in Kendrapara district. A sizeable section of the local populace consists of Bengali settlers who are expert boat makers and fishermen. Long back when they decided to make this region their home they cleared the […]

Chilika: Damaged houses, grounded fishing boats and snapped fishing nets- all these describe the current scenario in villages close to Chilika Lake post the severe cyclonic storm Fani. Left with almost nothing, the severely affected fishermen are still waiting for relief materials even as 11 days have passed by. Amid tall claims of the State […]

Bhubaneswar: Lakhs of Olive Ridley turtles embark on their journey for nesting along Odisha coast every year, little aware of the fate which awaits them. Thousands of them get killed after being stuck in fishing nets, but that is soon going to change, thanks to Turtle Excluder Devices (TED). The Departments of Forest & Environment […]

Paradip: The fishermen community dependent for their livelihood on the Paradip fishing harbour have now got a new lease of life thanks to the completion of the much-awaited dredging of the anchorage. Chairman of Paradip Port Trust (PPT) Rinkesh Roy on Thursday informed that the fishing vessels docking at Paradip Integrated Fishery Harbour will now […]

Chennai: The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) on Friday said its researchers undertook a major restoration project at the famous Chilika Lake – the largest brackish water body in Asia and the first Ramsar site of India – located in Odisha to help in tripling the population of the Irrawaddy dolphins while also benefitting […]