The Omani government is setting up a national company to spearhead the development of a new aquaculture-based industry in the Sultanate. Dr Saud Hamoud al Habsi, Director General of Fisheries Research, said the proposed initiative is a key part of an ambi...

Spain will tell Britain on Tuesday to push Gibraltar to let Spanish fishermen back onto waters off the UK territory after weeks of offshore skirmishes, the Foreign Minister said on Tuesday. Spain has accused police from the British territory - a penins...

The FAO has said it will continue to support government efforts to develop aquaculture in Paraguay. A recent meeting in San Lorenzo focused on the development of self-managed educational institutions. The event was attended by the FAO Representative...

A new deal with Mozambique, which licenses fishing opportunities to 75 EU vessels from Spain, France, Portugal, Italy and the UK, was backed by Parliament in a vote last week. The deal, which has applied provisionally since 1 February 2012, will remain...

On 30 May, European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Maria Damanaki, and Dr Jane Lubchenco, US Under-Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, will participate in a European Parliament hearing on EU/US cooperation at the internation...

Rains, tornados, high velocity winds, tidal waves and tsunami, not to mention the pirate menace. The south Indian State of Karnataka, with its 320-km-long coastline has perhaps lost count of the number of ‘missing’ fishermen, who remain incommunicado ...

The Community Health Fund (CHF), a subsidiary division of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) in Tanzania, is campaigning for fishermen and peasants across the country to join the newly introduced health insurance fund to help them get free medical ...

For American fish, this is a good time to be alive. On May 14 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that a record six federal fisheries returned to health last year. After a decade of similar progress, 86 per cent of America’s rou...

Several artisanal fishermen along the Coast, through their own initiative, have started using the Global Positioning System (GPS) device, it has been learnt. Mr Mjanga Ali, a Captain of a fishing vessel which operates on the Indian Ocean, said in Da...

Twenty Zambian fishermen have been abducted by Congolese marine soldiers on lake Mweru in Luapula province. The incident happened around 02 hours this morning when a total of 32 Zambian fishermen were caught by the soldiers. Luapula province deputy ...