Issued by Israel

Issued on 23 Jun, 2014

Description of the Stamp and the First Day Cover : The Stamp features Palmer Gate Street and the port; part of a ship at the corner; and statue of a fish with a ship on its back, Zvika Cantor‘s City Fish, which was erected in 2010 in the Haifa–Boston Partnership square, located on the corner of Palmer Gate and Kdoshei Baghdad Streets in Haifa.

The First Day Cover features a photograph of the illegal immigration ship Eliyahu Golomb, docked in the Port of Haifa.

Photo by : Lipa Kugel, courtesy of “Bintivey Ha’apala”, The Clandestine Jewish Immigration Research Center in Memory of Admiral Mordechai (Moka) Limon.

Type : Stamp with Tab, Mint Condition and First Day Cover along with Stamp and a Special First Day Cancellation

Security mark : Microtext

Colour : Multi colour

Denomination : 9.60 Shekel

Plate : 946

Stamps per Sheet : 15

Tabs per Sheet : 5

Method of Printing : Offset

Printer : Joh. Enschede, The Netherlands

About : 

• Holocaust survivors rose from the ashes of the crematoriums and immigrated illegally to Eretz Israel (Eretz Yisrael, The Land of Israel) during the British Mandate period. Under terrible conditions, on crowded decks of dilapidated immigrant ships, they made their way to the Promised Land, their hearts filled with hopes and dreams.
• The city of Haifa was the first thing that most Holocaust survivors saw as they approached the coastline. The bare concrete docks of the Port of Haifa were, to them, the Holy Land for which they yearned. They were part of an extremely dramatic and historic step taken by the Jewish people – the establishment of the State of Israel.
• Haifa Port was the entry point into Eretz Israel. Haifa was the Jewish people’s home port, both for the illegal immigrants (máaplim) who arrived prior to the establishments of the State and for the waves of immigrants who came after the State of Israel was established.
• Gate number five, which served for years as the mythological main entrance into the Port of Haifa, was later named Palmer Gate. The road leading out from the gate is also called Palmer Gate; named for Sir Frederick Palmer, a British engineer who planned and built the Port of Haifa from 1920 to its official opening in 1933.
• Palmer Gate Street is crossed by Port St. (Rehov HaNamal), which housed the administrative and commercial center of the port, and today is at the heart of the Port Campus – the academic center of Haifa’s downtown area.
• The Port Campus is a challenging project, which will turn an entire section of Haifa’s downtown into a complex of college campuses, dormitories and modern residential buildings, as well as supporting businesses that are typical of this type of complex.
• The Port Campus is very significant for the city of Haifa. The project reshapes the character and appearance of the city’s downtown, rejuvenates it and restores its past glory, and constitutes a critical phase in Haifa’s development.
• The above text by Yona Yahav, Mayor of Haifa.

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Issued by People’s Republic of China

Issued on Dec 22, 1998

Issued for : UPU, 22^nd Congress, Beijing ’99 World Philatelic Exhibition

Picture : Different Fishes from the Coral Reefs :- 1. 200 f – Pomacanthus imperator, 2. 200 f – Plectropomus maculatus, 3. 200 f – Chaetodon plebeius, 4. 200 f – Chaetodon chrysurus (vertical), 5. 200 f – Heniochus acuminatus (vertical), 6. 200 f – Lutjanus sebae, 7. 200 f – Balistoides conspicillum and 8. 150 f – Pygoplites diancanthus

Type : Sheet of 8 Stamps + Label, Mint Condition

Colour : Multicolored

Denomination : 200 Fen each

Perforation : 11½

Printing Process : Photogravure

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Issued by Australia

Issued on Oct 3, 1995

Issued for : The underwater world has become more accessible in the last 30 years. The development of sophisticated diving equipment, such as the research submersible, has enabled scientific research of marine ecosystems to flourish. The advent of commercially available aqualungs has made this alien environment accessible to recreational divers. Others are content to snorkel in shallower reef waters. Developments in underwater photography have further broadcast the attractions of the world down under.

Designer : Gavin Ryan lives on Magnetic Island and knows the Great Barrier Reef intimately. He has completed many stamp designs featuring marine life for different postal administrations, including Australia Post.

Type : Stamps, Postal Used

Colour : Multi colour

Denomination : 45 cents each

About : 

• Connecting the Indian, Pacific and Southern Oceans, Australia‘s seas comprise all five of the world’s major temperature zones: tropical, sub-tropical, temperate, subpolar and polar. While borders are more or less non-existent between seas, our coastal marine life can be broadly divided into two: the tropical north and the temperate south.
• Tropical waters are particularly rich in marine life. Indeed, coral reefs are often compared to rainforests in terms of the sheer splendour and diversity of lifeforms. the reefs are actually created by two of the world’s smallest inhabitants. One is a plant: a microscopic single-celled alga, which photosynthesizes sun-light into organic nutrients. the other is an animal: the tiny coral polyp which in turn converts these nutrients into limestone skeletons. The growth, death and eventual compaction of the skeletons forms the basis of a reef. Although some corals can grow up to 30 centimetres a year, reef sediments accrue at a rate of just one millimetre a year.
• Coral reef grows in sunlit lagoons where the water is warm, clear and shallow. reefs are not found in depths of more than 100 metres, or waters where temperatures drop below eighteen degrees.

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Issued by Pakistan

Issued on Apr 20, 1994

Designer : Ilyas Jilani (PSPC)

Type : Stamps, Postal Used

Denomination : Rs. 6/- (each design)

Colours : Multi colour

Size of Stamp : 39 x 25 mm

Size of print : 35 x 21 mm

Perforation : 13C

Quantity : Two million (each design)

Number of stamps in a sheet : 64 (16×4 rows) (Se-Tenant)

Paper : 102 gsm cresent & star water mark dual purpose PVA gum

Process of Printing : Litho Offset

Printers : Pakistan Security Printing Corporation

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Issued by Pakistan

Issued on Oct 16, 1993

Designer : Jawaiduddin(PSPC)

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : Rs. 6/-

Colour : Multi colour

Size of Stamp : 36.75 x 36.75 mm

Size of Print : 36.75 x 36.75 mm

Perforation : 14C

Paper : 102 gsm dual purpose coated PVA gum

Quantity : One million

Number of stamps in a sheet : 35 stamps (7 x 5 rows)

Process of Printing : Litho Offset

Printers : Pakistan Security Printing Corporation

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Issued by Nepal

Issued on Aug 6, 1993

Designer : K.K. Karmacharya

Type : Souvenir Sheet, Mint Condition

Denomination :
a) Psilorhynchus pseudecheneis (Menon & Datta) : Rs. 10/-
b) Anguilla bengalensis (Gray & Hard) : Rs. 5/-
c) Schizothorax plagiostomus (Heckel) : Re. 1/-
d) Tor putitora (Hamilton) : 25 Paisa

Stamp Size : 25.73 x 35.96 mm.

Souvenir Sheet Size : 70.00 x 90.00 mm. with 4 stamps

Format : Horizontal

Colour : 4 Colours (Souvenir Sheet : 5 Colours)

Paper : Official white paper with colour silk threads

Quantity : 1,000,000 (One million) Stamps each in sheets of 50 and 1,00,000 (One hundred thousand) Souvenir Sheets

Printing Process : Photogravure

Printer : Halio Courvoisier, S.A. Switzerland

About :

• Tor putitora (Hamilton) : 
  • Taxonomic Position –
    Class:- Teleostomi
    Order:- Cypriniformes
    Family:- Cyprinidae
    Genus:- Tor
    Species:- putitora (Hamilton)
    
  • Tor, locally known as Sahar, is famous for fishing and highly delicious. The fish is abundantly found in rivers and lakes of Mid-hill region of the Kingdom of Nepal. The body of the fish is covered with large scales and the size of the fish is also comparatively large enough.
• Schizothorax plagiostomus (Heckel) : 
  • Taxonomic Position –
    Class:- Teleostomi
    Order:- Cypriniformes
    Family:- Cyprinidae
    Sub-family:- Schizothoracini
    Genus:- Schizothorax
    Species:- plagiostomus (Heckel)
    
  • Schizothorax, locally known as Asala, is famous for fishing and its preparation is very delicious. It inhabits in clean streams, rivers and lakes of Mid-high hills. The feature of this fish is quite attractive due to the combination of gray and golden colours. The body of the fish is covered with small silvery scales and generally found in medium size.
• Anguilla bengalensis (Gray & Hard) : 
  • Taxonomic Position –
    Class:- Teleostomi
    Order:- Anguilliformes
    Sub-order:- Anguilloidei
    Family:- Anguillidae
    Genus:- Anguilla
    Species:- bengalensis (Gray & Hard)
    
  • Anguiila, locally known as Raj-Baam, has an elongated and snakelike appearance. It is a migratory fish. The fish also swims for reproduction in the sea. For a short while it can live out of water too. This fish has got the traditional and religious importance and it is worshipped still today by thousands of followers as an incarnation of the Goddess in the fish form in Chhabdi Barahi of Tanahu district, Nepal.
• Psilorhynchus pseudecheneis (Menon and Datta) : 
  • Taxonomic Position –
    Class:- Teleostomi
    Order:- Cypriniformes
    Family:- Cyprinidae
    Sub-family:- Psilorhynchini
    Genus:- Psilorhynchus
    Species:- pseudechensis (Menon & Datta)
    
  • Psilorhynchus, locally known as Tite, is one of the most rare fish. This fish inhabits in the Himalayan torrential rivers specially in Tadi, Likhu, Dudhkoshi, Sunkoshi and alike. The size of the fish is usually small with blunt snout and generally found in between the height from 700 meters to 2950 meters above the sea level.

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Issued by Japan

Issued on Sep 16, 1976

Issued for : As the 12^th of the Nature Conservation Series a 50 yen postage stamp will be issued depicting “Three Spined Stickleback”.

Colour : Multicolour

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 50 Yen

Printing Process : Photogravure & Engraved

Perforation : 13

About : 

• The stickleback (Gastrosteus aculeatus aculeatus) is a fresh water fish. Upstream species, measuring about 8cm long, live in the sea removing at the breeding season upstream to spawn and landlocked species inhabit the fresh water through life. In Europe and North America its distribution is wide and extensive, but in Japan quite limited within the northern part of the country. It has in front of its dorsal fin three hard needle-like spines separated from one another. The female lays eggs in the nest built by the male with seaweed at the bottom of the water. The male feeds the larvae and guards the nest. This is the mode of life peculiar to the stickleback.
• “Honganjozu, breeding place of the landlock species” in Ono City, Fukui Prefecture was designated as a natural monument on May 1, 1934.

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Issued by Japan

Issued on Aug 26, 1976

Issued for : As the 11^th of the Nature Conservation Series, a 50 yen postage stamp will be issued having for its subject “Miyako tanago”.

Colour : Multicolour

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 50 Yen

Printing Process : Photogravure & Engraved

Perforation : 13

About : 

• Miyako tanago (Tanakia tanago) is a small fish measuring about 4cm long on the average, even the biggest being less than 8cm long. At the breeding season, the male bears the beautiful marriage color; that is, the body is colored in reddish purple with its fin parti-colored in black and vermilion. Though the female remains unchanged outwardly, it extends its slender spawning tube in front of the rear fin and thrusts the tube into the bivalved gill to lay eggs. Indigenous to Japan, the fish is distributed in the limited area of Kanto district. It has decreased remarkably in its number and is on the brink of extinction. On June 25, 1976 it was designated as a natural monument.

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Issued by Israel

Issued on 9 Dec, 1975

The Designer : The stamps were designed by E. Weishoff, Ramat Ha-Sharon

Type : Stamps, Mint Condition

Colour : Multi colour

Denomination : 50 & 80 Agorot, 1.70 Pound

About : 

• The processes of progress and development in human society over the past few generations have resulted not only in a considerable rise in living standards, but also in radical changes in the composition and quality of the environment in which we live. The main causes of these changes are:
  • The rapid increase in world population.
  • The speed of industrial development and the application of new technologies.
  • Urban growth and sprawl.
  • The intensification of agriculture.
• The combination of these has led, in many parts of the world, to the serious and ever-increasing pollution of our air, rivers and land and has created problems of waste disposal, noise, and radiation. As a result of this pollution, the health and welfare of Man, as well as his natural resources, have all been adversely affected and in those instances in which damage has been caused to nature, disagreeable living environments have resulted.
• Water pollution
  • The factors principally responsible for water pollution are urban, agricultural and industrial waste.
  • In any one year, the volume of urban waste amounts to some 300 million cubic meters. These wastes which are untreated, or at best, partially treated, flow from the towns for many kilometers along wadis (dried-up river beds), pollute the under-ground water supply and provide a source of unpleasant odours and breeding-grounds for mosquitoes. Only 20% of our urban waste undergoes a proper process of treatment at purification plants and is recycled for irrigation purposes.
  • Industrial wastes create a serious problem of water pollution, particularly the wastes excreted by the food, textile, paper, leather, chemical and petro-chemical industries. The increasing use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and weed-killers in agriculture also have dangerous side-effects on the environment.
• Air pollution
  • The main sources of air pollution in Israel are caused by transportation, industry, power-generation and domestic heating.
  • The chief pollutants in our urban atmosphere are carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides, ozone, hydrocarbons and particulates. Air pollution creates health hazards to Man and Nature, causes economic damage and creates aesthetic nuisances.
  • For Israel, the problem of air pollution is comparatively new, but it has recently reached such dimensions as to demand immediate preventive action. This has been brought about by a number of factors:
    • In several areas of the country, the degree of air pollution has risen until it now approaches permitted limits.
    • The pace of industrial development and pollution-causing activities is rapid, particularly in the coastal area where the greater part of the country’s population and industry are concentrated and where meteorological conditions are such as to interfere with the efficient dispersion of the pollutants into the atmosphere.
• Noise pollution
  • The principal sources of noise are motor vehicles, industrial plants and places of entertainment.
  • Noise pollution is the direct result of technological progress – the more progress, the greater the volume of noise pollution. The best definition of “noise” is probably “sounds heard by a listener against his will”. This definition emphasises the fact that noise is a subjective feeling. Noise inflicts damage on Man by affecting his hearing and causing various other physiological disturbances. The Israeli who enjoys a mixed climate, spends a great part of his time out of doors. The buildings are constructed of light materials and the windows of public buildings and private homes are left open most of the year. As a consequence, in residential and office areas, environmental noise becomes a nuisance to the population at large.
• Government action to deal with the problem of the quality of the environment
  • After protracted discussions, the government finally formulated a policy of action based on three main principles:
    • The responsibility for preventing damage to the environment falls on the various government departments as defined by existing laws and regulations. Each department must give due consideration to environmental factors when taking decisions.
    • Where decisions affecting the environment are taken by more than one department, all decisions must be approved by an inter-ministerial committee.
    • The majority of the problems of the quality of the environment can be avoided through proper preventive planning and every effort should be made to prevent the creation of problems rather than on solving them once they have arisen.
• Conclusions
  • Most of the efforts devoted to problems of the quality of the environment are concentrated today on developing technological and other means of dealing with the existing problems and on preparing suitable and efficient laws, regulations and procedures together with operating and supervisory staff. These are the first steps that are required to be taken when dealing with the problem. In the long-run, however, we must bear in mind that many of the current problems of the environment are the result of the actions of individuals and they can be successfully solved only as a result of a change in human behaviour.
    

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Issued by Nepal

Issued on Mar 21, 1970 (Corresponding to 2026–12–8)

Issued for : The year 2026 B.S. In Nepal is being observed as Agricultural Year. The stamp issued today to mark the occasion depicts summer and winter crops on either side, with the traditional Nepalese cultivating tool, the kodali, and fruits, vegetable, fish and cow grouped in a pastoral scene. Thus the stamp symbolizes the general agricultural development of our country including horticulture, fisheries and dairy farming.

Issued by : His Majesty’s Government, Postal Services Dept., Nepal Philatelic Bureau, Kathmandu

Designer : K. Karmacharya

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 25 Paisa

Colour : 6 Colour Offset

Size : 5.10 x 2.85 cm.

Paper : Unwatermarked Gummed and perforated

Quantity : 5,00,000

Sheet : 20

Printer : Export and Import Enterprize,Warsaw, Poland

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