The story of Tharo Mallah is no different from other fishermen of his village, Rilo Mayan. Walking two kilometres to a jetty near the Jamshoro Bridge, every new day rekindles the hopes of this 70-year-old, of finding an increasingly-scarce fish catch in t...

Two years after the ‘United We Fish’ rally in Washington, US fishermen will gather again on 21 March in a demonstration supporting the amendment of the Magnuson Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act. Signed into law in 1976, in recent y...

Faroese Minister of Fisheries, Jacob Vestergaard, has announced a total catch limit for mackerel fisheries in Faroese waters in 2012 of 148,375 tonnes. He says that this limit is slightly lower than the level set in 2011 in order to take account of the...

Invited by FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department; 7 African coastal nations will attend the North Atlantic Seafood Forum (NASF) business arena March 6-8 for the first time. A delegation of around 30 African officials and seafood industry leaders wil...

A 36-year-old South Korean-flagged charter fishing boat caused a legal flurry after it upped-anchor near Lyttelton and headed toward international waters yesterday despite a High Court arrest warrant. The Korean officers of Oyang 77 say they were takin...

Russia's emergency services rescued 675 fishermen on Sunday from an ice floe that was drifting out to sea in the far east of the country. None of the rescued ice fishermen required medical treatment, the emergency services on Sakhalin Island said. Abou...

NET Systems, Inc. today introduced the PREDATOR-X, a proprietary shark-resistant netting material that protects fish being raised in submerged open-ocean aquaculture cages. By resisting destructive tearing, cutting and penetrations by sharks, PREDATOR-...

Atlantic Canada's largely salmon-based aquaculture industry continues to expand significantly due to new investment, according to the latest Report Card by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council (APEC). While global demand for farmed seafood is increasin...

Tanzania will suffer a loss of more than 4 million US dollars (about 6.4bn/-) this financial year, after 50 foreign fishing firms terminated their contracts with the Deep Sea Authority (DSA) for fear of pirates. "Pirate attacks are adversely affecting ...

Even after their involvement in the fishing industry for all their lives, most villagers living adjacent to the Tanga city coastal waters are ignorant of laws governing fisheries. They are in the dark as to what types of fishing gear require licensing ...