Commercial Dungeness crab season will officially come to a close in the state this week, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday. The CDFW on June 20 will close crabbing in Zone ...

MANILA, Philippines — Impoverished fishing communities in the Philippines are caught in a David-and-Goliath fight with industrial fishing companies after the country's top court loosened ...

Bangladesh Navy (BN) has seized a large quantity of illegal fishing nets and unlawfully caught fish worth Tk99.21 crore during the 58-day fishing ban in the Bay of Bengal. A media release sent from ...

Trawling would leave "little buffer between the trawl nets and the high-relief coral mounds," he told TCPalm. Shrimping also would stir up muddy sediment that could blanket the reef, Reed said.

Although it may sound like a disaster movie, this is a scene from newly released rare footage of bottom trawling —a particularly destructive method of fishing in which a ship drags a heavy iron ...

The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council is considering reopening the Oculina Bank coral reef to rock shrimp trawling nets. Conservationists say that would destroy the rare coral reef found ...

The council's Habitat & Ecosystem committee is scheduled to discuss the amendments at 3:15 p.m. June 12. The council is considering three options: No action Allow shrimp trawling in 16 square ...

Rock shrimp fishing is a big industry in Florida. Laurilee Thompson, owner of the Dixie Crossroads seafood restaurant in Titusville, served on the South Atlantic council.

The Fisheries Administration (FiA), under the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, permits only three types of fish to be imported from Thailand. The imported fish were not on the ...

One way is acoustic retrieval of traps in areas seasonally closed to vertical lines to prevent entanglement, allowing whales and trap fishing to co-exist,” says Dr. Moore.