Indian fishing vessels illegally fishing in Sri Lankan waters pillage around Rs. 900 billion worth of valuable marine resources in the northern seas of Sri Lanka. The Chief of the Northern Province Fisheries Association M. V. Subramanium speaking to Ne...

Oman's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources has warned fishermen who fish in the evening to hold valid fishing licenses during the movement ban. A statement issued online by Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources said...

Eitatsu Kikuchi was finally feeling a sense of hope after his industry struggled for a decade to return to some sense of normalcy. The nuclear disaster in March 2011 had forced fishermen in Fukushima Prefecture to suspend all operations, and their catc...

The Indian Navy on Wednesday deployed its surface and air assets for the search and rescue of nine missing fishermen of a Kerala-registered mechanised fishing boat which with 14 crew on board capsized off the Mangaluru coast in the early hours of Tuesday....

The authorities in the East Nusa Tenggara Province of Indonesia arrested five local fishermen for conducting blast fishing in the waters of the Komodo National Park's conservation area on Sunday. The suspects are identified by their initials as Ed (27)...

Thai authorities detained 34 Acehnese fishermen over poaching in the country's waters since the Thai navy seized their 60-GT fishing boat "KM Rizky Laot" on April 9, 2021. Aceh Province's traditional fishing community Panglima Laot has coordinated with...

Without addressing the existential crises stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Appellate Body impasse, the WTO director-general Ms Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the chair of the Doha Rules negotiating body seem to be working in tandem to steam-roll an im...

The World Health Organization and two other global agencies called on countries Tuesday to consider suspending the sale of live, wild mammals in food markets to prevent the spread of emerging infectious diseases in humans. In addition to the WHO, the ...

South Korea on Tuesday announced a decision to extend the period of stay for about 115,000 foreign migrant workers by one year in a bid to relieve labor shortages at small businesses and in farming and fishing communities. The labor and justice ministr...

The Moroccan Committee of Foreign Affairs, National Defense, Islamic Affairs, and Moroccan Expatriates, has finally adopted the draft law approving the Morocco-Russia fisheries agreement, on April 8. The maritime fisheries agreement between the two cou...