Tag: Fishery

Great white sharks can live almost as long as humans — 70 years or more — much longer than scientists previously thought. “White sharks in the northwest Atlantic are considerably older than previous age estimates,” some of which pegged the…

Thousands of people have been taking part in protests in Australia over a plan to kill large sharks.

Adventurous eaters may get a rush out of flirting with death by eating a piece of puffer fish, but dolphins may experience something completely different.

For all the weird and wonderful diversity of the animal kingdom, at the genetic level many species have a surprising level of similarity.

A fisherman in a kayak has died after being attacked by a shark off the Hawaiian coast, officials say.

The Forest Department has imposed a ban on engaging children in all kinds of works related to dry fish processing at Dublarchar in Shoronkhola upazila.

Over 100 shrimp and fish enclosures in Shyamnagar upazila have been washed away as an embankment collapsed due to tidal surge.

Collective community-based rights could put the world’s fisheries on a sustainable footing after decades of over-exploitation, an expert suggests.

Proper exploration of prevailing brighter prospect in pisciculture sector can increase fish production to bring economic self- reliance to the farmers through alleviating poverty in rural areas, experts said yesterday.

A total of 952 star tortoises has been seized by Indian border troops when they were being smuggled across to Bangladesh, in one of the largest recovery of these endangered reptiles.

Sandhya Sekar

A five-day ‘Hilsa Festival’ will begin at Chandpur Shilpakala Academy to boost production of the delicious fish to meet the demand for protein.

Debra Goldberg, ENN

Oceans cover 71 percent of the Earth’s surface, yet our knowledge of the impact of climate change on marine habitats is a mere drop in the proverbial ocean compared to terrestrial systems. An international team of scientists set out to…

By Paul Rincon

Indiscriminate catching of fires is causing a sharp depletion of shrimp and other fish resources in the rivers of the coastal Barguna district.

The production of Hilsa, known as king of fish species, has increased 22 percent in last three years in Barisal district. 

Speakers in a function here on Wednesday stressed the need for boosting production of fishes including indigenous ones to meet the nutrition demand for the people of the country.

Dhaka: As over-fishing in the Bay of Bengal takes a toll on the population of hilsa – the silvery tropical fish savoured in India and Bangladesh as the quintessential Bengali delicacy – experts from both the countries are seeking joint…

Foreign species of fish are taking room in the water bodies of Sunamganj for their ‘cost-effective farming’ in place of the protein-rich indigenous ones.

Cage culture has bright prospects of yielding around 10,000 metric tons of additional fishes valued at around Taka 150 crore only in two rivers of Chapainawabgonj district annually. Prospect of commercial fish farming in river and different other open water…

A huge quantity of banned current net was seized from Gopalpur ghat area located on the bank of Padma River under Char Bhadrasan upazilla in the district here yesterday.

Well-known species of sharks such as the great white shark, tiger shark, blue shark, mako shark, and the hammerhead shark are apex predators—organisms at the top of their underwater food chain.