Two tourist boats carrying roughly 70 people in total have capsized in the Wu river in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, leaving 14 people missing and three dead, state media said on Monday. As of Sunday evening, rescuers had pulled 50 people out of the water, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Rescuers were still…
They spent up to 10 years at sea, toiling in some of the harshest conditions distant-water fishing crews can face. Many never set foot on land because their Chinese captains did not want them to be seen by the port authorities. Most of their salaries went directly to their government, and some of their catch…
PM’s recent reference to timely warnings from the Met department easing worries for families of lakhs of sea-bound fishermen brought into focus an unique system of sharing weather alerts through use of indigenously developed transponders on marine fishing vessels.Odisha, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Diu, Goa, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh have already installed transponders on more than 4,000…