---

National News highlights

●         A new marine record from Rushikonda beach in Visakhapatnam

●         India has a huge potential for seaweed farming: CMFRI

●         India designates 5 new Ramsar sites

●         Nutrients due to heavy rain, plankton cause bioluminescence in Chennai beaches: NCCR study

●         Odisha based startup came up with India’s first app for bulk purchase of fishes

●         No plan to bring down fisheries subsidies: Govt in Lok Sabha

●         Concerns over increased whale shark stranding along Andhra Pradesh’s coast

●         Floodwater from the Godavari into sea sets new record in July

●         Pisciculturist to set up north India’s first shrimp processing facility

●         Godavari dams reduce sediment load, study warns of spike in coastal erosion

●         Multiple hydropower projects on the Chenab river ring alarm bells

●         Successful model of development in tandem with mangrove restoration

International News highlights

●         Climate Change Might Impact Disease Outbreak in Antarctic Fish

●         Chinese scientists develop robot fish that gobble up microplastics

●         Jellyfish Swarm Israel`s Coast, Climate Change Blamed

●         US-European Satellite Will Make World’s First Global Freshwater Survey

●         Severe heatwave in Mediterranean sea can cause mass extinction

●         Crustaceans help to fertilize seaweeds, study finds

●         Tyre dust: the ‘stealth pollutant’ that’s becoming a huge threat to ocean life

●         Shrimp fry collection goes on in Meghna damaging biodiversity

●         Scientists finally decoded why deep sea corals glow in dark

●         Stingrays can ‘talk’ when they get riled up, new study suggests

 

●         Seaweed can absorb noise as well as carbon

---

1. Fisheries current affairs August 2022_compressed.pdf