Fishers in Sri Lanka have launched urging that the government prohibit Indian trawlers from stealing in the island’s prawn-rich northern waters. Boats carrying opposition legislators traveled 100 km from Mullaittivu in the northeast to Point Pedro in the north. “We …
The Libyan Coast Guard reportedly shot and injured a crew member of an Italian fishing vessel on May 6, Italian media reported. Italian media reported that members of the Libyan Coast Guard fired warning shots near a pair of fishing …
The UK has sent two Royal Navy boats to Jersey after France threatened to deploy a blockade of the island’s main port over a post-Brexit fishing row. The tensions started afterJersey, a self-governing British Crown dependency off the coast of …
Over 100 French fishermen on Thursday night blocked trucks carrying fish from United Kingdom waters from entering Europe’s largest seafood processing center in the northern town of Boulogne-sur-Mer. Protesters were mad by the difficulties in obtaining licenses that would allow …
The Mauritius government deployed its coastguard and armed forces to rescue 26 crew of the Chinese-flagged crawler on Monday after it ran aground off the Indian Ocean archipelago nation coral reefs. The 16 crew — 14 Chinese, one Indonesian, and …
The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards, in cooperation with the Canadian Air Force, rescued 31 fishermen after the fishermen sent a distress call from aboard their sinking ship 130 miles south of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The trouble started late Tuesday …
New research published on Tuesday revealed that thousands of fish species, or one-third of all freshwater fishes, are already facing a “catastrophic” decline and on the brink of extinction. A report that was published by 16 global conservation organizations indicated …
Global fisheries and aquaculture operations struggle as further lockdowns threaten supply and demand according to a report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Fish supply, consumption and trade revenue for 2020 is expected to decline, with global aquaculture …
A Russian trawler, the Onega, sank in the Barents Sea in the Arctic Circle leaving 17 out of its 19-man crew missing.