On Monday, Collector AP Mahabharathi led a meeting with representatives from Tharangambadi. T Pichai, a representative, argued, "The purse seine fishing nets are a threat to fish resources in the sea.

NET Systems recently took over the purse seine net-making division of MARCO Global, a Seattle fishing equipment maker. Two new net lanes — long assembly lines — have begun producing seine nets ...

Traditionally menhaden have been used to make fish oil, fish meal and fertilizer. The 2005 closure of the last factory in North Carolina, however, did not mean the end of factory harvest for menhaden.

The department's director, Matthew Sablan, has issued a special permit for fisherman to be able to harvest these fish within the Piti Bomb Holes Marine Preserve and Achang Reef Flat Marine ...

Collector A.P. Mahabharathi has issued warning to those violating regulations on purse seine nets, and officials confirm that most of this fishing occurs in Mayiladuthurai, where many boats are ...

According to FECOP, non-selective fishing methods — which include purse seine nets and any other type of fishing that results in bycatch — have reduced Costa Rica’s fishing productivity by more than ...

In January 2023, the Supreme Court lifted the ban on purse seine fishing nets under certain conditions, allowing fishers to use the nets twice a week (on Mondays and Thursdays) between 8 am and 6 ...

FAIRBANKS — Alaska’s Board of Fisheries voted 5-2 Saturday to not approve a new type of commercial chum salmon fishing gear in the lower Yukon River.

Washington and Oregon officials this week adopted commercial salmon fishing seasons in late August and September for six beach seiners and four purse seiners in selected portions of the lower ...

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — Before they begin scooping fish out of the ocean, many trawl nets are born at a factory off Day Road. Inside the clattering warehouse, automated looms run day and night ...

In a new study published in the journal Science Advances on October 12, researchers in Australia calculated that a staggering 75,000 square kilometers (28,957 sq. miles) of purse seine nets—a ...

NET Systems makes trawl-fishing systems that are sold to fleets around the globe. Now the company is expanding, aiming to introduce its knotless netting technology to the purse-seine industry.