Destruction of fishing in Zuari river of Goa: A ground review (original) (raw)

An inventory on the coastal finfish and shellfish species of Zuari estuary, southwest coast of India

Assessment of finfish and shellfish species were carried out for a period of three years through continuous surveys (400 gillnet fishing experiments) with a total fishing effort of 100 fishing days along the Zuari estuary. This study yielded 286 finfish and shellfish species comprising of 156 demersal fish, 68 pelagic fish, 38 molluscan and 24 crustacean species. The species observed in this study covered all the trophic levels in the food web as well as the ecologically vulnerable and less resilient species (20-25%). Majority of the commercially important species of Zuari estuary were also collected in this study contribute to 70% of the catch.

SCREAM Report on Regional Plan 2021 for Santa Cruz Village in Goa, India

SCREAM Report on the Regional Plan 2021 for Santa Cruz, Goa, India., 2008

In 2008, the Government of Goa, India, decided to get people to evaluate and recommend changes of the Draft Regional Plan 2021 (DRP-21), of their respective villages. With the support of the Village Panchayat of Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz Education and Action Movement (SCREAM), conducted 11 ward-level meetings to elicit the views on the DRP-21 and compiled this Report on the DRP-21 for the village of Santa Cruz, Goa, India, which was later approved at the Village Gram Sabha (Public Meeting) of the Panchayat, and later forwarded to the Government.

A paradise eclipsed:challenges for Goa’s environment

Introduction:-' A wild panther (Panthera pardus) was trapped from a private residence in Panaji's high class Miramar ward in April 2006" Miramar-Panaji/Panjim, is on the banks of Mandovi estuary. It is a densely populated area. How the panther reached there? Where it came from?. Is the island of Tiswadi losing its' residual green cover?. The capital city of India's smallest state, Goa, Panjim or Panaji, the 51 st richest town in India by bank deposits has been animatedly discussing this issue. It is indeed a surrealistic experience. Goa is on the verge of a serious environmental crisis. The signs are there on the horizon-destruction of the rich watersheds, pollution of traditional ponds and lakes, deforestation, removal of urban tree cover, cutting of the lush green hills, reclamation of the eco-fragile flood plains of the major estuaries, destruction of the low lying Khazan ecosystem, leveling of the coastal sand dunes, fragmentation of the natural habitats, interference in the natural migratory corridors of the wild animals, overuse of chemical fertilizers, Air pollution, dust pollution, impact of mining and quarrying, alluvial sand excavation, plastic waste, mountains of municipal solid waste, human-wild animal (elephants, monkeys, panthers) conflicts, erosion of wild and agrobiodiversity, gene pools and the most dangerous of all-the ecological and cultural simplification. An ecological historian's approach Goa has changed radically in the 20 th century. Four major environmental drivers-mining (post 1945), urbanization (post-1961), Industrialization (post-1971) and tourism (post-1972) have strongly impacted its' ecology and economy in the past 60 years. Understanding the transformation of the ecology and environment of Goa needs an approach of an ecological historian. In this paper the focus is mostly on the developments of the post-second world war period (1945-2005).