Kochi, Aug. 6 -- The United States' reciprocal tariffs on seafood trade are placing Indian fishers in increasingly vulnerable economic positions, according to experts at a two-day national seminar on 'Mitigating Climate Change Impact on Marine Ecosystems.'
The seminar, jointly organised here by the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) and the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, is sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.
It also highlighted the urgent need for a proper action plan for climate change mitigation and ecosystem restoration.
Marine scientists, citing shifts in species biology, distribution, and environmental conditions, warned that climate change is significantly transfor...