National Marine Fisheries Sued For Threatening Marine Ecosystem

By |2021-09-06T16:36:52+05:30January 27th, 2012|Categories: Marine News|

Marine News, January 27, 2012: Earthjustice, a coalition of groups aiming to protect the ecosystem, on January 26, 2012 filed a lawsuit in the US District Court, Northern California against National Marine Fisheries. The Fisheries had granted approval to the US Navy for training in the North-West Training Range Complex in 2010 for five years. Earthjustice represents ...

Somalis Get Life Imprisonment for Piracy Attempts on S/V Quest

By |2021-09-06T16:38:47+05:30December 21st, 2011|Categories: Marine News|

Marine News, December 21, 2011: Somali pirates, Jilani Abdiali aka Ilkasse, 20 and Mohamud Hirs Issa Ali, aka Sanadaaq, 32 were sentenced to life imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Mark S. Davis, at the ‘Norfolk Federal Court’ for piracy against S/V Quest. They have also been charged for murder of U.S. citizens; Jean Savage Adam, Robert Campbell ...

Marine Life Endangered due to Oil Leak near Paradip Port

By |2021-09-06T16:37:08+05:30December 7th, 2011|Categories: Marine News|

Marine News, December 7, 2011: Leakage of crude palm oil through pipelines has put the marine ecology in the waters of Atharbanki near the Paradip Port in danger. Alarmed by this, the fisheries department is now urging the ‘Cargill India Vegetable Oil Refinery Plant’ located in Paradip to repair the damaged pipeline and pump out oil from ...

Somali Legislative Framework in the Pipelines to Counter Piracy

By |2021-09-06T16:39:03+05:30November 30th, 2011|Categories: Marine News|

Marine News, November 30, 2011: The Ambassador of the Republic of Somalia to India, informed the press that a legislative framework would be put in place in order to tackle the Somali piracy menace during the “Global Maritime Security and Anti-Piracy Conference-2011” in Gandhinagar. Ebyan Mahamed Salah, Somalia’s Ambassador said, “An Anti-Piracy Legislation shall be in place ...

EU Faces Shortage of Warships to Counter Piracy at Somalia

By |2021-09-06T16:39:22+05:30November 23rd, 2011|Categories: Marine News|

Marine News, November 23, 2011: Top military official of the European Union confirmed that there is indeed a shortage of warships required for the piracy mission at Somalia and this gap isn’t likely to be filled before March next year. EU Military Committee chairman, Hakan Syren said that this shortage will pose to be a problem without elaborating his statement ...

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