France will hire professional fishermen to kill some 20 sharks off the Indian Ocean island of Reunion this week in an effort to understand the reasons for a series of attacks in the surfing hotspot. Two surfers have been attacked by sharks within a wee...

Robert Pomeroy is as much at home in small fishing villages in Southeast Asia as he is in his office overlooking Long Island Sound at UConn’s Avery Point campus. Pomeroy, professor of agricultural and resource economics and Connecticut Sea Grant Prog...

Salmon fishermen are reporting increased landings of California king salmon with the population rebounding from the low numbers seen since 2007. According to Aaron Newman, Chairman of the California Salmon Council, "the salmon are finally back in larger n...

The National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI) researching about fish farming in Uganda’s major lakes. Cage culture, the practice of farming fish in large waters, in box-shaped structures, is an alternative the Ugandan government is pu...

Over 2,000 boats continue trawling with destructive nets raising alarms for the country's 300-million dollars fisheries exporting sector, experts said on Saturday. Pakistan exported 124,489 tons of seafood amounting 315.525 million dollars in the last fis...

“My sons will be anything, but never fishermen,” said 32-year-old Maicon Alexandre, the youngest of the leaders of Ahomar, a union of small-scale fisherpeople on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. That determination is shared by his colleagues, like ...

Bangladesh Adivasi Forum President Jyotirindra Bodhipriyo Larma on Thursday alleged the government slapped an official embargo on the celebrations of this year's International Day of the World's Indigenous People which is on Aug 9. Better known as Sant...

Fishermen in Hainan and Guangdong provinces have resumed operation after the annual fishing ban in the northern part of the South China Sea was lifted on Wednesday, said local fishery authorities. The fishing ban started on May 16 and ended at midday o...

Prawn and barramundi fishermen may soon be joining forces to create a new seafood lobby group in Australia's Queensland. The main seafood lobby group in the state, the Queensland Seafood Industry Association, is facing a challenging future with a numbe...

Commercial fishermen in New England are facing severe cuts in their catch limits next year because of the poor condition of populations of so-called groundfish, regulators said Thursday. Several important groundfish species are in poor shape and some c...