April 29, 2005 — Thousands of miles from any human habitation, fishing nets hundreds of meters long and balls of net tens of meters across, lost or abandoned by their former owners but still an ...

Hundreds of fishermen on Lake Kwania are struggling to make a living due to the proliferation of floating islands that are destroying their fishing gear and disrupting their livelihoods. The floating ...

Dutch-owned trawler FV Margiris, the world's second-biggest fishing vessel, shed more than 100,000 dead fish into the Atlantic Ocean off France, forming a floating carpet of carcasses that ...

New warnings about "ghost nets" have been issued after two dead sharks were found tangled up in a large fishing net off East End.

Long 'ghost' nets that stretch for several kilometres and weigh more than a tonne have been slammed by Australia's federal environment minister as 'industrial killing machines'. The massive nets which ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 18, 2024 shows a fisherman working at a floating fish farm in Lhokseumawe, Aceh Province, Indonesia. (Photo by Fachrul Reza/Xinhua) An aerial drone photo taken on ...