Take back your plastic trash from Saint Martin’s Island!

by Mohammad Arju | Jan 1, 2017 | Marine Debris

So, here we are! On this first day of 2017, in front of a dead sea turtle on the beach of Saint Martin’s Island. The volunteers I’m traveling with are here to learn more about nesting sea turtles on the Island. But unfortunately, beside the dead Sea...

Saving St. Martin’s isn’t a lost cause yet

by Mohammad Arju | Nov 29, 2016 | Happy Island

It is true that what is left of the coral colonies in the Bay of Bengal around Saint Martin’s Island is almost a ruin. But it is not lost yet. Still, we’ve time to salvage the almost collapsed social-ecological systems of St. Martin’s Island. Peoples say the local...

What #CITES4Sharks offers to the Bay of Bengal?

by Mohammad Arju | Sep 26, 2016 | Shark

To put it simply, CITES CoP 17 offers an opportunity for more protection to at least four species of sharks and rays in the Bay of Bengal. As you know, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has kicked of its 17th...

In search of an effective deep sea trawling ban season

by Mohammad Arju | May 10, 2016 | Sustainable Marine Fisheries

The Department of Fisheries (DoF) says, the deep sea trawling ban season is intended to keep the ‘bulldozers of the sea’ off the water during main breeding season of fin-fishes, crustaceans, sharks and rays. DoF, for the first time in history, banned trawling in the...

Banning the bulldozers of the sea?

by Mohammad Arju | Apr 11, 2016 | Sustainable Marine Fisheries

Banning bottom-trawling is not about the vessels only. We need sustainability of marine fisheries in the mind of business leaders and an efficient monitoring-control-surveillance system in place.   It was meant to be a success story. Department of Fisheries (DoF)...