The new government of Senegal has cancelled the licences of 29 foreign fishing trawlers, demanding that they offload their catches in the capital Dakar before leaving the west African country's territorial waters. The dramatic move on Tuesday by fisher...

Sustainable water reforms are having a positive impact on countries’ development, according to the results of a United Nations survey released 4 May 2012. The survey reveals that countries that have implemented water reforms backed by Member States a...

April and May are the high fishing season of the year for the Vietnamese fishermen in Quang Tri, Quang Ngai, Khanh Hoa and Kien Giang. However, unlike previous years, the fishing boats still have been lying still. Fishermen have decided to stay at home in...

The South Africa Cabinet is expected to give the green light to a draft small-scale fishing policy that has been the subject of debate for three years, but opponents believe it contradicts the long-term National Development Plan (NDP) forged by Planning M...

Concrete steps must be taken to integrate the traditional scientific, technical and technological knowledge of indigenous and local communities, at all stages of the process of identifying and describing ecologically or biologically significant marine are...

GLOBALG.A.P. has developed a new branded traceability code, which it hopes will appeal to younger consumers and meet growing seafood buyer’s demands. The integrated QR (quick response) code will lead to www.my-fish.info, where consumers will find inf...

Two Indian fishermen, who were allegedly "dumped" by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) in mid-sea, near the International Maritime Boundary (IMB), today reached Okha, a Gujarat Fisheries Department official said. "The two fishermen on board...

European fishing ministers rejected adopting a Danish-style tradable quota systems in Luxembourg last week on Friday, but agreed on working toward greater regional control of fisheries. The Danish tradable quota system was introduced by the former gove...

Before Christopher Columbus’s grandparents were born, early European explorers from the Vikings to the Basques had already discovered an untold wealth of fish in the corner of the northwest Atlantic now known as the Gulf of Maine. Here the proximity of ...

People living in the west coast of the Malaysian peninsula are advised to be prepared for a tsunami in view of a shift in the tectonic plate in Sumatra and Nicobar islands. Malaysian Meteorological Department director-general Datuk Dr Yap Kok Seng said...