The Fisheries Administration under the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will close fishing for short mackerel in Cambodian waters from January 15 to March 31 this year, according to an announcement seen by The Post on January 10. It said...

The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) in the United Arab Emirates has issued a decision, regulating the fishing and trade of certain species of fish during their breeding season. The decision prohibits the fishing of goldlined seabrea...

Hendrik Mulyadi was checking his crab traps when he heard a huge explosion on the water nearby. The sea suddenly rose, lifting the Indonesian fisherman’s boat as smoke filled the air. “I’m lucky it didn’t hit me,” he recalled on Monday, sitti...

Guyana is increasing its fight against illegal fishing as part of a broader national agenda to protect the country’s resources which can be found throughout its maritime zones. On Tuesday, Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Brigadier G...

Downing Street has said Boris Johnson maintains confidence in the fisheries minister after she admitted not reading the post-Brexit trade deal with Brussels when it was agreed because she was busy organising a nativity trail. Victoria Prentis faced cal...

An MP has called on the Prime Minister to secure fishing rights for a UK super trawler which has been unable to operate since December. The Kirkella freezer trawler, based in Hull, catches cod and haddock in sub-Arctic waters, but Brexit has left it wi...

WSI, the International Organisation for Women in the Seafood Industry, has announced its awards for the year 2020 for films that describe the struggles, discriminations and opportunities that women face in the seafood industry around the world. Marie C...

At least nine fishermen from Thangachimadam and Rameswam in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, who had ventured into the sea, were reportedly arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy on charges of crossing the international maritime boundary line (IMBL), in the...

A Sriwijaya Air jet carrying 62 people lost contact with air traffic controllers minutes after taking off from Indonesia's capital on a domestic flight on Saturday, and debris found by fishermen was being examined to see if it was from the missing plane, ...

Egypt’s Immigration Ministry urges fishermen to immediately stop accessing economic waters of other countries, after many Egyptian fishing boats have been seized in Tunisia over illegal fishing. The ministry said the state’s authorities are working...