In a first, Goa biodiversity board moots control on tisreo farming

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In a significant move to conserve the declining tisreo (clams) and other Resources,Goa State Board(GSBB) has recommended only traditional hand-picking methods for their extraction, to be undertaken only by locals in a duly specified season.

The board termed as general guidelines to draft rules by biodiversity managers to ensure sustainable and equitable utilisation of

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resources and their management, these follow a recent large-scale loot and plunder of shellfish resources in Chicalim bay and some other habitats.
Villagers and others in Sancoale and Chicalim part of the bay that is a hotspot of bivalves and other species – are still rueing the loss of tisreo, kalvam (oysters) as also the more endangered menddio (window pane oyster) resources in the recent past.