The Philippines is open to discussing a fisheries agreement with its neighboring countries after resolving its diplomatic row with Taiwan triggered by the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman in disputed waters earlier this month. President Benigno...

As European Maritime Day 2013 is being celebrated in Malta, European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanki this evening held bilateral meetings with junior minister Roderick Galdes. Small-scale fishing was placed high on the age...

A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but Chilean officials said it was not felt on land and discarded the possibility that it might unleash a tsunami. The quake was recorded at 5:49 a.m. l...

35 civil society delegates representing small-scale fisheries from 19 countries across South and North America, Africa, Asia and Europe met in Rome over Saturday and Sunday 18 and 19th May to prepare for Technical Consultations on a new international inst...

Civil society groups representing small-scale food producers, including fishworkers and indigenous people from over 50 countries in both the North and the South, have welcomed the process initiated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Na...

Israeli gunships opened their automatic machine guns on the Palestinian fishermen along the Gaza coast in the early morning of Monday. Witnesses said that the shooting towards the Palestinian fishing boats had started before dawn and continued until mo...

As the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) closed its annual meeting last week in Split, Croatia, WWF applauded the organisation for adopting the first comprehensive management plan ever to guarantee the sustainable exploitation of k...

Governments, civil society and the private sector should ensure and strengthen the contributions of forests, trees and agroforestry systems to food security and nutrition, this was felt by participants at the first-ever International Conference on Forests...

A new EU report on the European Union member countries’ aquaculture sector contains some basic gender-disaggregated data on employment. Although the statistics are incomplete, they nevertheless provide some useful information. The report is called: The ...

Congolese soldiers are holding 16 Zambian fishermen for for allegedly fishing in their waters, state-owned the Times of Zambia reported Friday. The fishermen, from Northern Province of Zambia, were reported to be fishing near the Congolese side of Lake...