China has rescued a group of 26 fishermen, mainly Chinese and Vietnamese, who were taken from a Taiwanese trawler and had been held by Somali pirates for the last 18 months, the Chinese government has said. The fishermen, who worked on the Taiwanese tr...

After a U.S. navy ship fired shots at a small boat, killing one Indian fisherman and injuring three others, the U.S. expressed its condolences. But the U.S., in a note from the embassy in New Delhi, also defended the decision to fire, saying “the ves...

While the Welsh government consults on setting up 10 highly protected marine conservation zones (HPMCZ) around Wales' coastline, one report by fishermen offers a different approach. Creating the zones would mean a ban on fishing, dredging and anchoring...

Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation and thousands of local fishermen in the south Indian State of Andhra Pradesh have agreed to work collaboratively as the former seeks to implement the Deen Dayal-West gas block of Krishna-Godavari basin. About 16,500 ...

Six fishermen narrowly escaped death in Ghana when a supply vessel, MV Fast Sailor, supporting offshore oil operations rammed into a fishing canoe crushing it into pieces off the coast of Takoradi in the Western Region, at dawn Monday. The fishermen we...

Russia has detained 36 Chinese fishermen and seized two ships for entering an exclusive economic zone in its far eastern Primorsky region, China's state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday. Xinhua cited the Chinese consulate in the port city of Vlad...

An Indian fisherman has been killed and three seriously injured after an American naval ship fired on the small motorised boat in which they were travelling off the coast of Dubai. The Emirates’ state news agency citing a foreign ministry official co...

Most Maine lobstermen have resumed pulling their traps after many of them tied up their boats last week in an effort to ease a glut that has driven down prices. Prices for both fishermen and consumers plummeted after soft-shell lobsters began showing u...

The U.S. has expressed condolences to the relatives of fishermen who were fired on by a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of the United Arab Emirates on Monday night. “The Embassy of the United States of America would like to convey its condolences to the...

The brutal mauling of a 24-year-old surfer in the waters off Western Australia over the weekend has local officials pondering an end to a ban on killing great whites, according to a report from news.com.au. Witnesses have said Ben Linden, from Perth, ...