Shrimp accounts for over 90% of India’s seafood exports; stakeholders say tariffs would give Ecuador, Vietnam edge.

VISAKHAPATNAM: Freshwater fish and prawn and some varieties of seafood prices have surged significantly in parts of Andhra Pradesh following the implementation of a two-month fishing ban aimed to ...

The ban, enforced under the Andhra Pradesh Marine Fishing Regulation Act, 1994, aims to conserve fish and shrimp during the breeding season and is lifted annually in mid-June.

Authorities in Andhra Pradesh's Prakasam district rescued 40 bonded labourers, including minors, from shrimp industries in Tanguturu mandal. The victims, from Odisha and Chhattisgarh, were misled by a ...