Conservation and environmental groups will finally get the results of the first independent study on bycatch involving the ...

Three crew members from a fishing vessel died from hydrogen sulfide poisoning after a fish storage tank collapsed and ...

Three fishermen died and one was critically injured by toxic gas exposure while unloading fish at a Chumphon port.

Two fishing vessels were detained by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) for breaching licence conditions by ...

Kiran Koli, general secretary of MMKS, said that fishermen with large trawlers and purse seine fishing boats, equipped with LED lamps, have been violating the ban.

Small-scale Filipino fishers, who use more sustainable methods such as hand-lining, cast net fishing or bamboo fish corrals, have struggled for years with the encroachment of commercial fishing ...

MANILA, Philippines — Impoverished fishing communities in the Philippines are caught in a David-and-Goliath fight with industrial fishing companies after the country's top court loosened ...

My crew didn’t catch anything,” Taufik told The Jakarta Post on a gloomy Monday at Muara Angke Port in North Jakarta, where dozens of purse-seine fishing boats were docked.

Discover the incredible fishing techniques used by Japanese fishermen as they deploy huge purse seine nets to catch billions of fish in the open sea. This method involves large fishing boats and ...

Tuna is caught using two main methods: purse seine fishing, which captures entire schools of tuna in large nets, and line fishing, which focuses on catching individual fish.

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. – Commercial fishing boat captain and owner of McHenry Fisheries Inc. William Porter McHenry has settled charges that he illegally dumped toxic waste into state waters ...

To persuade Zone B trawler owners to give up their boats, the government has agreed to pay them a one-off ex gratia payment to exit the trade, transition to purse seine fishing, or continue using ...