The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing a series of webinars on COVID-19, fish trade and global aquaculture. The webinars intend to provide an overview of how the industry has been affected by the pandemic and so...

For the Black Sea fishermen, there is plenty of fish in the sea beside the region's most popular, hamsi, a name given to a breed of anchovy in Turkey. However, the fish's population has been rapidly shrinking and experts blame it on overfishing in othe...

Seven more newly arrived international fishermen have tested positive for Covid-19 in a Christchurch quarantine hotel in New Zealand. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said on Wednesday there were 18 positive cases in the facility and hea...

The river police in Bangladesh seized 97 trawlers, 67 lakh metres of current nets, and detained six fishermen while preparing for illegally catching hilsa in the River Padma in Munshiganj. The fishermen were detained and the items were seized during a ...

The following is a statement from Virginijus Sinkevičius, a European Commissioner from Lithunia, issued at the end of the AGRIFISH Council: Today, EU Member States and the Commission have come to an agreement on the 2021 fishing opportunities in the B...

Live traces of the coronavirus were found on frozen seafood packages in a Chinese city that recently suffered an outbreak of the deadly disease, the government’s health officials said. The discovery was made amid an investigation into the recent clus...

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the Alaska Peninsula on Monday afternoon, triggering a tsunami warning in the region. The warning was downgraded to an advisory within a few hours, and then was lifted entirely later Monday after waves about two feet ...

Eleven international seamen isolating at a Christchurch quarantine hotel are infected with Covid-19, despite testing negative for the virus before flying to New Zealand. Stuff previously reported about 440 fishermen from Russia and Ukraine were due to ...

Canada's Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said today that Mi'kmaw fishermen in Nova Scotia have been "let down by police" following incidents of violence in the province's southwest over the Sipekne'katik band's lobster fishery. "We must also r...

At least 99 fishermen were arrested in Bangladesh, and four cases were lodged in the last five days for defying a ban imposed on netting hilsa, said a press release of Barishal river police on Monday. Inspector Abu Taher of Barishal river police said t...