Typically, the rafts have a beacon attached to alert fishermen when they should deploy their nets. Many FADs that wash up on ...

A Plymouth harbour authority has seized illegal nets teeming with trapped fish. Cattewater Harbour Commissioners said the nets on the River Plym had been "deployed by unlit small craft during the ...

"Such nets capture and kill all fish and diving birds such as cormorants that come into contact with them. It is illegal for both licensed fishing vessels and recreational fishermen to fish with ...

"Such nets capture and kill all fish and diving birds such as cormorants that come into contact with them," it said. "It is illegal for both licensed fishing vessels and recreational fishermen to ...