Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. They form a sister group to the tunicates, together forming the olfactores. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Around 99% of living fish species are ray-finned fish, belonging to the class Actinopterygii, with over 95% belonging to the teleost subgrouping. The earliest organisms that can be classified as fish were soft-bodied chordates that first appeared during the Cambrian period. Although they lacked a true spine, they possessed notochords which allowed them to be more …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 October 2024 English

The seppa, bair, darki, duyer, diyaar are just some of the indigenous bamboo fishing traps that Jalal Ali crafts for a living. But truant monsoons have shrunk Assam’s many waterbodies, and the demand for fishing traps has fallen sharply, and so has his income

The seppa, bair, darki, duyer, diyaar are just some of the indigenous bamboo fishing traps that Jalal Ali crafts for a living But truant monsoons have shrunk Assam’s many waterbodies, and the demand for fishing traps has fallen sharply, and so has


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 July 2024 English

This report is written by Suhas Chakma of Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP), University of Arizona. Published in July 2024, the report examines the conflict between tiger conservation …

destroyed and indigenous peoples can no longer hunt, fish, gather food, or access to their religious, sacred who was shot dead when he entered the forest to fish at the Pench reservoir and his body recovered with


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 June 2024 English

Wular Lake – pollution has led to a sharp fall in the water level and a decline in the population of fish. Fishermen whose livelihoods depend upon this lake are finding it difficult to make a good catch

the water level and a decline in the population of fish. Fishermen whose livelihoods depend upon this lake


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 June 2024 English

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has conducted Household Consumption Expenditure surveys (HCES) regularly since its inception in 1950. Data on household consumption was collected annually from 1950–51 to 1973-74. …

processed food milk and milk products vegetables egg, fish & meat cereals edible oil fruits other food items processed food milk and milk products vegetables egg, fish & meat cereals edible oil fruits other food items Item groups Reference period I Edible oil; egg, fish & meat; milk and milk products; vegetables; fruits; household consumption expenditure on edible oil, egg, fish and meat, vegetables, fruits, spices, beverages 5.38 3.80 fruits 140 246 3.71 3.80 egg, fish & meat 185 231 4.91 3.57 edible oil 136 153


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 May 2024 English

This research paper looks at the impact of urbanisation on lake systems in Bengaluru, with a focus on the vegetation growing in the lake and expansion of built-up areas in …

irrigation water, fer- tilizer from silts scraped from the lakebed, grass or fodder, drinking and cleaning water, and fishing landur Lake, which historically was used for the cultivation of paddy rice (Oryza sativa L.) and vegetables as well as for fishing


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English

includes in its ambit landowners, tenants, sharecroppers, agricultural labourers, plantation workers, fish workers, milk producers, poultry farmers, livestock rearers, pastoralists, and collectors of minor

Agricultural Labourers and Plantation Workers; Fish workers, Milk Producers, Poultry Farmers, Livestock small-scale fish workers including fishers, fish farmers, fish vendors and other ancillary fish workers; cooperative (like kudumshree collective farming efforts, fish processing and livestock cooperatives, promotion small-scale fish workers including fishers, fish farmers, fish vendors and other ancillary fish workers; to social security & livelihood support and women fish workers' rights. g. Stop coastal mapping without


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 27 February 2024 English

Where have the fish gone: The impact of industrial development on fishworkers in Gujarat

Where have the fish gone: The impact of industrial development on fishworkers in Gujarat


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 February 2024 English

The National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, published this factsheet on the nation-wide 'Household Consumption Expenditure Survey' on February 24, 2024. The survey …

household consumer expenditure on edible oil, egg, fish and meat, vegetables, fruits, spices, beverages 5.38 3.80 fruits 140 246 3.71 3.80 egg, fish & meat 185 231 4.91 3.57 edible oil 136 153 fruits (dry) 0.30 0.34 0.49 0.58 1.17 egg, fish & meat 3.32 3.21 4.74 4.79 4.91 edible oil fruits (dry) 0.47 0.46 0.63 0.78 1.31 egg, fish & meat 3.13 2.58 3.63 3.65 3.57 edible oil 5.26 3.76 fruits 140 246 3.63 3.77 egg, fish & meat 185 231 4.80 3.54 edible oil 136 153


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 February 2024 English

Ho farmer Birsa Hembrom shows us how to make a monsoon fish dish

farmer Birsa Hembrom shows us how to make a monsoon fish dish


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 February 2024 English

This is the first ever report on the ‘state of the world’s migratory species’ and was published through collaboration between UNEP-WCMC (UN Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre) and …

proportion of all of the marine and freshwater fish species (79%) and marine turtles (43%) that are Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)-listed migratory fish at risk of extinction. The urgency for action to of CMS-listed fish is of particular concern, with nearly all (97%) of CMS-listed fish threatened with decline in the relative abundance of monitored fish populations over the last 50 years. Levels of extinction Threatened migratory species (mainly birds and fish) that are not yet listed in the CMS Appendices


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