After a series of labor, safety and fisheries practice controversies, the New Zealand government announced Tuesday that foreign-flagged fishing boats must be reflagged as New Zealand vessels, bringing them under New Zealand law, if they wanted to operate ...

Americans eat more than a billion pounds of shrimp a year. What most Americans don’t realize, however, is that 90 percent of the shrimp they buy at the grocery store and consume in most restaurants has been imported from Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, E...

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The 29 Chinese fishermen and three boats seized in the Yellow Sea by unidentified North Koreans are free and have arrived in China, reports say. The North Korean foreign ministry notified the Chinese embassy in Pyongyang on Sunday that the men were fre...

The government and international organisations are working to restore Cambodia’s once plentiful freshwater lobster market, officials have said. Technically a freshwater shrimp, the crustacean is a popular foodstuff in the Kingdom, selling for up to U...

The United Nations proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. Marine Biodiversity is the theme for this year's International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB). ...

The fisheries sector in India's Jharkhand State has been witnessing a phenomenal growth after Jharkhand became a separate state bifurcating Bihar in 2000. When in 2001-02, the production of fish in the state had been only 14,000 metric tones. In 2010-11, ...

Israeli police and Agriculture Ministry inspectors arrested a man illegally breeding piranhas in his Petah Tikva home. According to a ministry statement, the man, a suspected drug dealer, was under police surveillance. A raid of his home discovered a ...

Mayor of Bayla district Saeed Adan Ali said on Monday that there are two illegal fishing trawlers currently in Puntland waters, Garowe Online reports. Mayor Saeed of Bayla, a coastal district in Karkaar region, said that there are two foreign trawlers ...

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service is holding a public meeting today in Belle Chasse to discuss the future management of Atlantic bluefin tuna. It’s illegal to fish bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Me...