Following a twelve month fishery assessment period, a Global Trust Certification Committee met on April 16th 2012 and formally certified that the management system of the U.S. Alaska King and Snow Crab Bering Sea Commercial Fisheries** have met the FAO-Ba...

The Canadian government has worked to assert its military sovereignty in the Arctic, but a group of more than 2,000 international scientists is asking this country to do more to protect the fragile polar ecosystem from commercial fishing fleets. The sc...

Angola's minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Afonso Pedro Canga, on Thursday inaugurated in the southern Benguela province, a Centre of Support to Artisan Fishing, meant to supply technical assistance to fishermen in light of the Pro...

China says authorities have released 21 Vietnamese fishermen whom they had detained for more than a month on a disputed island in the South China Sea. The official Xinhua News Agency said late Friday that according to the South China Sea Fishery Bureau...

Fishermen living on the islands near the Keamari jetty were in a panic on Friday morning, as scores of dead fish washed ashore near the jetty and their residential areas. Local fishermen are heavily dependent on the mori fish, as it is their primary sourc...

As the standoff between the Philippines and China drags on, more Chinese fishermen are getting ready to set sail for Scarborough Shoal. Docked at Hainan Province, fishing boat Qiong-Qionghai 09099 is sailing to the West Philippine Sea, which is more th...

Coral gardens that were among Asia's most spectacular, teeming with colorful sea life just a few months ago, have been transformed into desolate gray moonscapes by illegal fishermen who use explosives or cyanide to kill or stun their prey. The site is ...

Two fishermen in Mexico shocked their entire town Sunday after returning to shore with a 2,000-pound great white shark. The 20ft-long fish was caught in a net left overnight by the men in the Sea of Cortez but to their perhaps relief, found already dea...

The Italian government has agreed to pay 10 million rupees (200,000 U.S. dollars) to families of each of the two fishermen who were allegedly killed by Italian security guards on board an oil tanker off the southern Indian coast in February, said local me...

Two years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, touching off the worst offshore spill in U.S. history, research into the disaster's environmental effects is turning up ailing fish that bear hallmarks of diseases tied to ...