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 ...

December 19, 2022: China’s huge ocean-going fishing fleet sustains itself by massive poaching of fishing grounds worldwide. The operation is worldwide and a major threat to species at risk of ...

Lerwick lifeboat launched at 8.45am this morning to a report of a Peterhead-registered fishing trawler taking on water and in ...

Around the UK, hundreds of marine protected areas (MPAs) appear on maps as blue sanctuaries for ocean life. In theory, these ...

Russian emergency officials say a Russian fishing trawler has sank in the northern Barents Sea and 17 of its crew have gone missing MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian fishing trawler sank Monday in the northern ...

Trawling of the ocean floor by fishing fleets releases roughly the same amount of carbon emissions into the water as aviation puts into the atmosphere each year, researchers said on Wednesday, calling ...

Small-scale fishers in the West African nation have protested what they claim is encroachment and unfair competition for ...

Protecting just 3.6% of the ocean would cut risk of carbon disturbance due to bottom trawling by 90%, study finds BARCELONA, March 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Trawling of the ocean floor by ...

Dutch-owned supertrawler FV Margiris deposited 100,000 dead fish off the French coast on Thursday. Images of the incident show a carpet of dead blue whiting in the Atlantic Ocean. France and the ...

These ships normally stay at sea months at a time and have crews of 14-30. The number of Chinese trawlers has expanded enormously since 1985 when there were only 13. Now there are 3,000 of them ...

MOSCOW — A Russian fishing trawler sank Monday in the northern Barents Sea, and 17 members of its crew are still missing, emergency officials said. Two other crew members have been rescued. According ...