MAYILADUTHURAI: The arrest of 37 fishers from Mayiladuthurai by the Sri Lankan Navy has sparked fresh concerns with the Lankan authorities seizing a purse seine fishing boat for the first time. On ...

NAGAPATTINAM: The tussle over the practice of purse seine fishing has made a comeback in the coastal delta region, unsettling fishers in Nagapattinam who on Tuesday met the district collector and ...

This report aims at filling the current gap in the quantification of real at-sea capacity of BFT purse seine fleets, thus providing a much-needed baseline for the ongoing management processes ...

Senior officials including SP S Selvanagarathinam, and Tahsildar A Francis Xavier took part. The fishers stood firm in demanding that the ban on purse seine nets be revoked, and the officials refused.