When Tony Roach was 14 years old, he stowed away on a trawler at Grimsby docks. Today, he retains his life-long connection to the industry by volunteering on the Ross Tiger, a trawler and museum ship ...

KYLEAKIN, Scotland (AP) — Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye, checking each one methodically. Unlike most of Scotland’s coastline, these waters are ...

March 30, 2026: Since the beginning of the year China has been sending out thousands of fishing boats to form barriers over 300 kilometers long. More recently, about 1,400 Chinese vessels quickly ...

Four offences seem to have been committed but only one fine was imposed by the fisheries department A Chinese fishing company was fined R400,000 last month when four of its trawlers violated their ...

Deep-sea fishing trawlers are never described as glamorous. They’re traditionally forward-heavy vessels built with ramps at the stern for hauling heavy catches onto the working aft deck. On the ...

Much has been written about suspected sabotage of undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, but the UN says fishing trawlers, not spies, are causing most of the damage. "Generally, around 80 percent of cable ...

BANJUL, Gambia — Kawsu Leigh writhed in pain on the fishing boat, his burned skin as mottled as the paint on the deck beneath him. Raw and slick, the burns covered large parts of his upper body. His ...

An artisanal fisherman in charge of the Tema Manhean Landing Beach, Yasser Arafat-Ali, has called on the government to deploy ...

Diesel prices in the country have climbed to more than 50 baht (US$1.53) per litre – nearly double what many trawlers paid at ...

Ghana’s industrial fishing fleet will be barred from operating at sea for two months from July 1, 2026, as the government rolls out this year’s closed fishing season aimed at rebuilding declining fish ...