Philippine emergency workers yesterday rescued 30 fishermen whose boat was left drifting in rough seas amid the country’s first tropical storm of the year, which also left hundreds of travellers stranded. The fishermen’s motorboat ran out of petrol...

Israeli forces detained four Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, witnesses said. Israeli warships surrounded two fishing boats off Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza, forcing the fishermen off the vessels and taking t...

Indonesian fishermen from East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province called on Wednesday for equal legal treatment from the Australian government following President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s recent decision to grant clemency to Australian drug convict Schapell...

Indigenous foods which have been neglected by the food industry and urban consumers can be an important tool to alleviate hunger and malnutrition, a United Nations official said today. “The focus of research and crop improvement on a few widely consu...

Ghana will be getting 11 new fishing ports by 2017, constructed by Dutch engineering and consulting company DHV. Construction will begin this summer, and the project totals $200m which will be financed by Ghana with a Chinese loan. The new ports wil...

An Indian court granted bail on Wednesday to two Italian sailors charged with the murder of two Indian fishermen in a case that has caused a major diplomatic rift between Rome and New Delhi. The two marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, w...

A nationwide distant-water fisheries association was established on Tuesday in response to increasing competition worldwide and declining domestic fishing resources. "China consumption of aquatic products has been growing in recent years amid the risin...

Bluefin tuna exposed to radioactivity that leaked into the Pacific Ocean after the earthquake and tsunami damaged Japan’s Fukushima power plants last year have carried that radiation to the waters off California. This is according to a new study by s...

About 60,000 fishermen throughout Malaysia who receive cost of living allowances would be protected under an insurance scheme said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Datuk Mohd Johari Baharum. He said the insurance scheme for fisher...

In a setback to efforts by Italy to secure release of its two marines charged with murder of two Indian fishermen, the Kerala High Court today turned down its plea for quashing an FIR against them, holding that they were liable to penal jurisdiction of In...