The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has released the latest edition of Yemaya, its newsletter on gender and fisheries. Yemaya No. 59, dated June 2019, features articles from Fiji and India and an article on the 7th Global conf...

The Gulf of Guinea is a hot spot for illegal activities, which affect global trade and security. This week a conference in Ghana’s capital, Accra, seeks solutions to overcome issues that plague the region. Experts say collaboration will be the focus of ...

When a proven ecosystem restoration method also helps reduce poverty and build economic resilience, governments will often back them as a win-win solution. The UN Environment Programme, the Kenya Forest Service, the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research ...

Libyan security on Wednesday announced seizing an unlicensed Italian fishing boat in the Libyan national waters with 7 crew members on board. The boat's crew included five Italians and two Tunisians, Libyan security said in a statement. The boat has...

Russia’s state fishing agency said on Wednesday that a Russian vessel held by North Korean border guards had not been in North Korean waters when it was detained and that Pyongyang’s action had been illegal, the RIA news agency reported. North Kore...

Lawyers representing 40,000 Nigerian farmers and fisherman from two communities in the Niger Delta, have been given permission to take their legal claim against the oil giant Shell to the UK Supreme Court. The decision will allow the two communities f...

Emergency measures to save the ailing eastern Baltic cod stock from impending collapse have been announced by the European Commission. With immediate effect, commercial fishing for cod is banned in most of the Baltic Sea until 31 December, 2019. The ba...

Entrepreneurship training is bringing a ray of hope to subsistence fishing communities in marginalised coastal areas of the Eastern and Western Cape of South Africa, equipping them with the business skills to better operate in the fishing sector as well a...

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Fishermen and boat owners have gathered at the Indonesian embassy here to hand over a memorandum protesting the seizure of Malaysian vessels by the Indonesian government. The group said that the boats were seized in Malaysian waters or in disputed grey...