THERE were no life jackets on board, the runabout was overloaded and the skipper was not keeping a proper lookout in the moments before he suddenly crashed into a buoy in the Swansea Channel.

A free one-day boating course to support and encourage the safe operation of commercial vessels in the Cayman Islands is being offered by the UK Maritime Coastguard Agency, in conjunction with Cayman ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean rescue workers were searching Monday for nine missing crew members after a Chinese fishing boat capsized off the country’s southwestern coast. South Korea’s ...

Commercial fishing boats in Unalaska's Carl E. Moses Boat Harbor, Dec. 21, 2023. Commercial fishing jobs in Alaska are down for the fifth year in a row. That’s according to new economic data from the ...

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has taken early steps to adjust a buffer zone that would allow commercial menhaden fishing closer to the state’s coastline, reigniting the industry’s ...

The number of seafood harvesters in Alaska’s famed industry has set a new record low, surpassing last year’s record low, according to figures published this month by the Alaska Department of Labor and ...

A commercial fishing boat crew pulls up a net full of menhaden off the Louisiana coast. (Photo courtesy of Louisiana Sea Grant) The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has taken early steps to ...

The C. ANN, a 55-foot former steel commercial fishing boat is the newest addition to the Manasquan Inlet Reef site. Photo courtesy of NJDEP Earlier this month, the New Jersey Department of ...