These super trawlers are the size of football pitches. Whalsay has seven such behemoths, each state-of-the-art vessel costing £40m-£50m. The pelagic trawlers venture far out into some of the ...
A fisherman has reportedly been killed and two others injured after the Myanmar Navy opened fire on a Bangladeshi fishing trawler near St Martin’s Island in the Bay of Bengal. Trawler owners ...
Mr Amarfio stated that activities such as illegal transfer of fish between vessels, or transshipment known locally as “saiko,” no longer existed in Ghana’s waters, therefore, trawlers cannot be said ...
Alaskan pollock is a $2 billion industry supplying chains like McDonald’s with fish sticks and other products. The fishing industry’s destruction of marine habitats is compounding the dire effects of ...