The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has just released the report of a workshop that discussed a study titled “Women Fish Vendors in Mumbai” to document the current situation and challenges facing women fish vendors in Mumbai...

Fishermen in St Mary, Jamaica, are finding it difficult to make their usual frequent trips to sea given the soaring gas prices coupled with the harsh economic times. As the number of fishermen at the Pagee Fisherman's Beach increases with more young pe...

Until World Environment Day, June 5, in a campaign, Save Lake Victoria, Vision Group media platforms are running investigative articles, programmes and commentaries highlighting the irresponsible human activities threatening the world’s largest fresh wa...

The Nova Scotia government is introducing legislation to set aside a special day in honour of residents who make a living at sea. Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Sterling Belliveau announced the Mariner’s Day Act today while speaking at the Mariti...

Hundreds of fishermen from the village of Burulus in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, located on the northern coast of Egypt, blocked on Monday afternoon the International Mediteranean Highway with burning tyres, protesting that their fishing licenses had not ...

As Nova Scotians gathered Sunday to honour workers who have died on the job, many of them were remembering fishermen who never returned home. Of the 11 workplace fatalities in the province so far this year, seven have been fishermen. In the last fiv...

The head of the Secretariat General of Fisheries expressed the Spanish government's commitment to take the necessary legislative changes for the Canarian fishery to be a fishery targeting bluefin tuna, within the corresponding quotas, to the European Unio...

Marine Stewardship Council certification has landed Fiji Albacore Tuna on the European stage: In a world-first, international seafood supplier Anova Seafood brings the first MSC labeled tuna from Fiji to Europe. Anova formally launched their Fiji Albac...

Rajya Sabha member from Goa Shantaram Naik has written a letter to union defense minister A K Anthony calling for the immediate suspension from service of the captain of the vessel 'ICGS Vaibhav' belonging to Indian Coast Guard, which collided with a fish...

More than three years ago, Paulette Raymond’s younger brother went to work at a Halifax-area container terminal and never came home. “I miss him every single day of my life,” said Raymond on Sunday of 45-year-old Tommy Raymond, who died after bei...