To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
A decades-long push to require the labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients in the United States received a significant boost Wednesday [Apr. 24, 2013], when bipartisan bills on the issue were simultaneously proposed ...
This week sees the official launch of a highly innovative initiative supported by Ecover and Closed Loop Recycling, which sees waste plastic being collected from the seas around the UK by EU fishermen and sent to the UK for recycling at ...
Tags: Project, Plastic Packaging, Oceans
Icicle Seafoods, a US-based seafood company, has appointed Amy Humphreys as its new president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. Amy Humphreys worked as a president of Delta Western, a leading petroleum marketing and ...
Tags: Icicle Seafoodd, Seafoods, company news
The festival features activities such as the ancestor-worship celebration of the Liao Dynasty, the lake-worshipping to ensure an ample first batch of fish, the hooking of the fish in nabo (an iced wooden house and a temporary camp used by ...
Business Line reported that Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd, a 100% subsidiary of TATA Power developing the 4,000 MW Mundra Ultra Mega Power Plant, provided free healthcare treatment to the Tragadi bunder fishermen community at Mundra. This ...
Tags: TATA Powe, healthcare treatment, fishermen, Mundra
Stilt, or "Crutch", is a form of folk performing art in China. It is performed by a dancer walking on wooden stilts and is a folk art which perfectly combines laboring with dance and music. It is also known as "Upward Viewing Drama" because ...
Tags: stilt, crutch, folk performing art, wooden stilts, Upward Viewing Drama
Light sculpture to be unveiled on Friday 14 December in front of the city hall on the river Amstel Royal Philips Electronics, partner to the Amsterdam Light Festival, has announced its involvement in the?light sculpture 1.26 Amsterdam?by ...
Called "ba" in Tibetan, masks are mainly used for various folk performing arts and have direct links with people's daily life, work and entertainment. They are popular across Tibet. Masks used in Tibetan operas are developed from the ...
Tags: folk performing arts, tibetan operas mask, drive away ghosts
The Nigerian state of Lagos is working with cooperative societies to help fish farmers to boost the production of fishes. Lagos State Agriculture and Cooperatives commissioner Lawal Gbolahan was quoted by the News Agency of ...
The Jings, with a population of 18.915, live in Wanwei, Shanxin, Wutou and Tanji villages of Fangcheng City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Du Xian Qin, a traditional musical instrument, has only a single string and a body ...
Tags: Jings, population, musical instrument, sea products, fishermen
According to historical documents, people began to use raincoats way back in the Zhou Dynasty. The earliest forms of Chinese raincoats were made of straw and they were called "straw rain capes" or "coir rain capes". Originally, rain ...
Tags: raincoats, straw rain cape, apparel
Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the longest and most important holiday for Chinese people. It is usually celebrated from the eighth day of the twelfth month to the fifteenth of the first month (lantern festival), by Chinese lunar ...
Tags: Spring Festival, painting, artworks, folk arts, handicraft
An ice lantern is a wintertime work of art widely created in north China. It was originally made for illumination, providing a light source for the life and work of farmers and fishermen of north China in chilly winter night. Later, the ...
Tags: lantern, ice lantern, artworks, folk arts
The Sea Sacrifice Festival originated from Zhougezhuang Village, Tianheng Town in Jimo City of Shandong Province. It has enjoyed a history of over 500 years. Sea sacrifice is a fishing culture with distinctive local characteristics ...
Tags: Sea Sacrifice Festival, fishing culture, sacrifice to the sea