More than 1,200 artificially-bred Chinese fishes were released into the Yangtze river on Sunday to increase their stocks. Hundreds of volunteers and residents helped to release them in the city of Yinchang, central China's Hubei province. Among the ...

A quintessential Bengali delicacy and the national fish of Bangladesh ‘Hilsa' is passing through its toughest phase in a fight for survival, warn environmentalists and scientists. “The fish is exploited by intensive fishery, indiscriminate exploita...

The death of some “big guys” in the fisheries sector in Can Tho and Soc Trang provinces in Vietnam has sounded an alarm about the financial situation imbalance, which may lead to the bankruptcy of a lot of seafood companies and fish farmers as well. ...

A man died after being struck by a lightning while returning from a fishing trip yesterday afternoon. The incident happened a few metres away from the seawall at Nasese in Suva between 3:30pm and 4pm. The death brings the number of people who have d...

From Labrador to the Falkland Islands, there are not many fishing grounds Stanley Adamczewski has not trawled in 46 years on the water as a commercial fisherman. Fishing has been good to the Polish native who came to the U.S. in 1974 and started out as...

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) arrested 32 Vietnamese fishermen and seized four boats during Ops Permai 1/06 last Wednesday and Thursday. About three tons of marine products were found on each vessel. Bintulu District 12 maritime e...

Iran exported $13,798 worth of fishery products last calendar year, which ended on March 19, showing a 64 percent rise compared to the year before, IRNA news agency reported. The exported products weighed 4,594 tons, up 52 percent yea on year, the rep...

The U.S. Coast Guard opened fire on Thursday on a derelict Japanese fishing vessel washed out to sea by last year's devastating tsunami in a bid to sink it and eliminate a threat to navigation, a spokesman for the agency said. The Coast Guard, which ho...

The Central Institute of Fisheries and Technology (CIFT) in Kochi, Kerala, India, inaugurated a 5,000-square metre business incubation centre at their premises in Kochi. The centre was inaugurated by Dr S Ayyappan, Secretary, Department of Agricultural Re...

The U.S. Coast Guard unleashed cannon fire Thursday at a Japanese vessel set adrift by last year’s tsunami, stopping the ship’s long, lonely voyage across the Pacific Ocean. A Coast Guard cutter fired on the abandoned 164-foot (50-meter) Ryou-Un Ma...