The bad news was ‘Ilishi’, ‘Nahama’, ‘Paniakhia’, ‘Kalakhuranta’, ‘Kekenda’ and ‘Sebakhainga’ __ all popular fish species among Odia households __ had gone missing in Chilika. The good news: the latest assessment says the species a...

Local fishermen in Malaysia are facing a dilemma -- to come with the boats to the petrol kiosk for fuel or obtain permits to transport the fuel. Some l00 fishermen in Bagan and surrounding fishing villages, about 13km from here, have been facing this p...

After testing farm-raised shrimp samples of international origin researchers at Texas Tech University found evidence of antibiotics -- one a suspected human carcinogen -- in seafood imported into the United States and purchased from grocery store shelves....

Conservation groups in Canada are banding together across Ontario to monitor and control some of our nastiest invasive alien species. The effort is timed to bring attention to International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22, sanctioned by the United ...

The decision of the government of the Sindh province of Pakistan to invite foreign investment for the development of a 20,000-acre Fisheries Special Economic Zone in Thatta is obviously in the interest of fisheries. But it is doubtful that the decision...

An official press release by the United States Embassy in Costa Rica indicates that shrimp caught in our country may once again be imported by the North American nation, following a certification that was reissued under Public Law 101-162, Section 609, 16...

The people of the Borroloola region in Australia are celebrating the announcement of an Indigenous Protected Area for some of their traditional land. The Federal Government has made protected 130,000 hectares of land in the decision. The Borroloola-...

Vietnamese fishermen are moving to defy a Chinese ban on fishing in disputed waters in the South China Sea, according to a fisherman Wednesday, as Hanoi labeled Beijing’s decision as illegal. Le Lon, a fisherman from Vietnam’s Quang Ngai province w...

More than 2,000 fishermen in Kelantan are eligible for the fishermen insurance scheme, which provides protection with rewards of between RM50,000 and RM100,000. Malaysian Fisheries Development Authority director Wan Mohd Adnan Wan Ibrahim said the sche...

Sharks have garnered a well-deserved reputation as the ocean's most ferocious killers, capable of sniffing out a single drop of blood in the water from miles away -- but for one nurse shark at an aquatic center in the UK, the taste of meat seems to have l...