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Boaties resolve to reduce commercial purse-seine fishing to save seabirds

Sports fishermen believe a commercial fishing method is to blame for a rapid decline in seabird numbers. Matarangi boatie Graeme Kensington said it was believed the commercial purse-seine fishing ...
The Hindu

Purse seine fishing reveals faultlines in fisher community

An ongoing case in the Supreme Court, to decide whether the ban that several States have imposed on purse seine fishing is justified or not, has revealed the faultlines between small, marginal and ...
Mongabay

In Java Sea, vigilantism and poverty rise as purse seine fishing continues

Fishing communities on small islands in the Java Sea and farther afield have long complained that large purse seine vessels are encroaching on traditional fishing grounds. On Sembilan Island, between ...
The New Indian Express

No more permitted users, crackdown on purse seine nets begins in Mayiladuthurai

MAYILADUTHURAI: Declaring that there are no more registered purse seine fishers in the district after the lone three who were permitted to resort to the fishing method are said to be switching back to ...
The Daily Mirror

Concerns over destructive fishing methods

All Island Multi day Boat Owners’ Association of Sri Lanka complains that the percentage by weight of fish its members caught is between 40 – 45kg. It said that their vessels carry between 50 and 200 ...