India’s first Dugong Conservation Reserve to come up in Palk Bay off Tamil Nadu
N.B. Nair Chennai (ISJ): The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday (21 September) notified a protected region in the sea for the conservation of Dugong, an...
Category : Fisheries and Marine Sciences
DNA barcoding may help conserve fish biodiversity in NE India
A group of researchers from the College of Fisheries, Tripura explore biodiversity of fish in Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland. This helps in identification and...
Coral bleaching of 2016 caused severe mortality in Gulf of Mannar
A team of Indian researchers, which conducted intensive underwater surveys, finds high extent of coral bleaching and subsequent mortality. Coral bleaching refers to loss of...
India, Australia to launch Bio robots to study Indian Ocean ecosystem
New Delhi (ISJ): Indian and Australian scientists plan to launch bio-robots to study large-scale changes in the chemistry and biology of marine ecosystems below the...