Trawlers drag the ocean bottom in areas closed to bottom trawlers 40% to 100% of the time. At its upcoming meeting, the North ...
A mere £2.80. That is all the golden ticket costs for the half-hour ferry across to ‘Millionaire Island’. They only charge on ...
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) met last week in Anchorage, Alaska, following a pollock trawling bycatch ...
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 ...
Ocean warming has made the collapse of Ghana’s fisheries virtually inevitable, and overfishing by foreign and local fishers ...
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 ...
The pollock trawling fleet operating in the Gulf of Alaska has been shut down early due to an alarming number of chinook ...
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 ...