In this case, the plaintiffs are 70 families of traditional fishermen and farmers from the community of Verdum the estuary of the Chone River in the canton of Tosagua in the Province of Manabi and that have been forced to leave their lands which have been bought by a company which wants to exploit shrimps ponds.

The plaintiffs sued the company in front of the court of justice of Manabi instance and...

The plaintiff is the owner of fishponds, MingXiang Logistics co., LTD.(Chongqing branch)caused a traffic accident with large leakage of transformer containing oil. The oil along the rain water flowed into the culvert under the highway pavement, with the culvert flowing directly into the plaintiff’s fishponds, causing damage to the plaintiff’s property. After the accident, Chongqing Iron Hair Suiyu...

The plaintiff is the reservoir fish farming, and the amount of fish died due to the discharging into the sewage pollution of the defendant. So the plaintiff sued the defendant to assume tort liability. The case was brought by the plaintiff in front of Shangsi County People’s Court in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

According to the report of the investigation, the court determined the...

In this case, a salmon farming company applied for changes in the Marborough Sounds Resources Management Plan in order to allow salmon farming in eight locations of the region. One of the sites concerned was neighbouring an Outstanding Natural Landscape of Outstanding Natural Character. The Board of Inquiry in charge of accepting the changes made in the Sounds Resources Management Plans considered...

The case concerns both the granting of the original short-term (two year) federal aquaculture licences in 2010 and the one-year renewals in 2012 of four shellfish aquaculture licences in British Columbia. The K’omoks First Nation argued that Canada had a constitutional duty to consult with it regarding both the issuance and the conditions of the licences and that Canada did not meet this duty.
The...

The reference for preliminary ruling concerned the interpretation of Article 6 of Directive 2006/11/EC on pollution caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment of the Community. The Conseil d’État requested a ruling in connection with a case brought by the Association nationale pour la protection des eaux et rivières claiming misuse of power in particular with...

By its application, the Commission of the European Communities requested the Court to declare that: – in not putting in place the criteria and detailed rules for the use of the fishing quota allocated to it, – by failing to ensure compliance with Community rules on the conservation of aquatic marine living resources by the monitoring of fishing activities, appropriate inspection of landings and...

This case dealt with the ecological and social implications of commercial shrimp farming in India. The traditional rice/shrimp rotating acqua culture system previously used by Indian fishermen had began to give way to more intensive methods of shrimp culture which could produce thousands of kilograms per hectare. A large number of private companies and multi-national corporations had started...