Draining ditches for fish a highlight of Mekong Delta tours

Tuoi Tre News 12 February 2015 Manually draining ditches to catch fish is a long-standing practice in several Mekong Delta provinces in Vietnam and if tourists are lucky enough, they might find themselves in such an intriguing sight during Tet (Lunar New Year) tours. Tours to such Mekong Delta places as Dong Thap, Can Tho, An Giang, Ben Tre, Bac Lieu, Ca Mau, and Kien Giang are offered Read More…

Thai crops to suffer worst drought in 15 years

Reuters 5 February 2015 Thailand will experience its worst drought in more than a decade this year, the irrigation department said on Thursday, damaging crops in one of the world's biggest rice-exporting nations. Thailand was currently battling drought in eight of 76 provinces, but 31 other provinces remained at risk, the Interior Ministry said, adding that it had allocated around 6.8 Read More…

The Horrors of Fishing With Dynamite

New York Times 4 February 2015 SAN FRANCISCO — Jessica Vyvyan-Robinson was diving off Borneo when she was struck without warning by shock waves. “I could feel it in my chest — like a dull, booming sound,” she recalled in an interview. After surfacing, her group learned that fishermen had detonated explosives. The incident, which occurred a year ago, was Ms. Vyvyan-Robinson’s Read More…

Fish conservation reduces poverty in Mwandi

Zambia Daily Mail 2 February 2015 GIVEN the low levels of employment and low agricultural yields in Mwandi district, overfishing is threatening fish stocks in the upper Zambezi River and it is feared the problem may in the long term wipe out aquatic animals. Fish is a source of livelihood for about 28,000 households along the Barotse flood plains of the Zambezi River, which is endowed Read More…

From a Swift Boat to a Sustainable Mekong

Foreign Policy 2 February 2015 More than four decades ago, as a young lieutenant in the “brown-water Navy,” my crew and I journeyed down the Mekong River on an American gunboat. Even with the war all around us, in quiet moments we couldn’t help but be struck by the beauty and the power of the river — the water buffalo, the seafood we traded for with local fishermen, the mangrove on Read More…

Glacier Park’s Prominent Role in Global Conservation

Flathead Beacon 29 January 2015 In 1932, while European countries simmered on the brink of war, the U.S. and Canada reached an unprecedented agreement in the name of peace and goodwill. The two neighboring nations banded together to create the world’s first international peace park in the towering Rockies of Northwest Montana and southern British Columbia. Waterton-Glacier Read More…

Aquaculture Improvement Projects Launched in Indonesia, China and…

The Fish Site 29 January 2015 Shrimp farmers in Indonesia and Thailand and tilapia farmers in China will receive training and knowledge to help them improve their livelihoods and increase collaboration to manage and improve water quality and reduce incidences of disease outbreaks. The Aquaculture Improvement Projects will create a zonal approach to form local management groups for greater Read More…

UN agency urges greater protections for ‘inland fisheries’

UN News Centre 29 January 2015 The world's network of lakes, rivers and streams that provide fish and fresh drinking water to millions of people must be better managed in order to safeguard their ongoing contribution to healthy diets and the global economy, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) urged today. “Inland fisheries provide a valuable but often overlooked Read More…

Heat waves seen increasing: report

VietNamNet Bridge 28 January 2015 The Viet Nam Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX Viet Nam) is the first major collaborative scientific analysis of climate change by Vietnamese researchers. Compiled over more than two years by a group of 40 scientists, policy-makers and experts, the report assesses extreme weather Read More…

Fish catch break on world stage at global conference

Phys.org 27 January 2015 Inland fishing - the powerful yet quieter sister to the large, salty marine aquaculture powerhouse - has gained what experts say is a much-needed visibility boost this as the first partnership between Michigan State University (MSU) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations goes on in Rome. These freshwater fish provide the food, sport Read More…