A group of artisanal fishermen from Caleta de Quintay, Valparaiso Region, Chile, was allocated a project funded by the regional government (GORE), the Fisheries Administration Fund (FAP) and the Development Fund for Artisanal Fisheries (FFPA) to export li...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 hit islands off the east coast of Japan on Wednesday but no tsunami warning was issued, public broadcaster NHK said. NHK said the epicenter of the earthquake was near Miyake island, about 180 km (111 mi...

A powerful earthquake has struck near Papua New Guinea. The United States Geological Survey said the shallow magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck Wednesday morning about 19 kilometers (11 miles) from the small northern town of Aitape. The Pacific Tsunami...

Fisheries management is clearly "in the wrong hands", MPs have been told in a frank assessment of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson’s guardianship of South Africa’s R5bn fishing industry. The paper, drawn up by Par...

At least 50,000 workers in several canning factories and deep-sea fishing vessel companies in General Santos City, Zamboanga Peninsula and South Cotabato in the Philippines are in danger of losing their jobs because of the current power crisis in Mindanao...

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted on Tuesday to adopt a ban on discarding unwanted fish of 35 species caught in the Skagerrak (between the North Sea and the Baltic). The ban, to take effect gradually between 2014 and 2016, would be enforced ...

Stakeholders have blamed the rising poverty levels among fishermen in Nyanza region for the failure to honour the annual Omena fishing ban. Fisheries lobby group, Uhai Lake Forum, said the ban has been ignored due to high poverty levels that drive fish...

About two dozen crab fishermen from all over Newfoundland and Labrador had an emotional meeting with their union leader Tuesday morning in St. John's. The harvesters want the Fish Food and Allied Workers' union to help free them from provincial rules t...

Cruise ships have always played their part in maritime safety, diverting to rescue lost souls across the world’s oceans, but over the last few days three cruise ships have rescued fishermen and migrants in three separate incidents. In Asia, it is rep...

Tonga's Fisheries Sector is to be exempted from the 15 percent Consumption Tax on sales, the Prime Minister, Lord Tu'ivakano told a gathering in Nuku'alofa. At the same time a government fund originally set up to help agricultural exporters by the Mini...