Commercial Fishing

Karen Scott (The Conversation)–Ocean plastic pollution was a focus at the recent UN oceans conference, which issued a declaration in support of an

A Florida fishing boat captain was rescued after spending four hours treading water without lifejacket after he fell overboard off the coast of Panama City,

The Biden Administration has announced a set of actions to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing that the White House says is significantly

By Jorge Valero Apr 10, 2022, (Bloomberg) –The dispute between the European Union and the U.K. over fishing permits is nearing its conclusion as

By Dave Sherwood COJIMAR, Cuba,(Reuters) – Since the days of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” whose

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb 25 (Reuters) – With marine heat waves helping to wipe out some of Alaska’s storied salmon runs in

(Reuters) – Two bodies recovered during the search and rescue of a Spanish trawler that sank off Newfoundland this week were taken to the port city of

Searchers have recovered 10 bodies in the search for crew members from a sunken Spanish fishing trawler on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Three survivors

By Anna Portella PUERTO AYORA, Ecuador,(Reuters) – Though he makes a living from the protected waters around Ecuador’s storied Galapagos Islands,

A captain’s decision to get under way while fatigued led to the grounding and sinking of a fishing vessel near Whittier, Alaska, the National Transportation

By Tassilo Hummel PARIS,(Reuters) – Dutch-owned trawler FV Margiris, the world’s second-biggest fishing vessel, shed over 100,000 dead fish into

By Paul Tullis (Bloomberg) –Biendi Maganga-Moussavou had a problem.  As Gabon’s minister of fisheries, agriculture and food security, he helps

By Nikos Chrysoloras and John Follain (Bloomberg) — The U.K. has issued additional fishing licenses for European Union boats, in a step that may

Dungeness crab season is off to a rocky start. U.S. Coast Guard crew across the Pacific Northwest have towed 10 disabled or distressed commercial fishing

By Albertina Torsoli (Bloomberg) —France will continue supporting its fishermen as talks with the U.K. on post-Brexit fish licenses drag on,

By Layli Foroudi and Clotaire Achi ROUEN, France, Nov 3 (Reuters) – A British scallop dredger impounded by French authorities sailed out of

(Bloomberg) –The U.K. government hit back at France over its proposed retaliatory measures in a dispute over fishing access, as post-Brexit tensions

The Jones Act, legislation which essentially reserves movements of cargo between U.S. ports (or points in U.S. waters) for vessels, owned, crewed and

A crew member from a Rhode Island-based fishing vessel had to be medevaced over the weekend after being struck by a stingray off Long Island, New York, the

By Stephen Treloar (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke’s Aker ASA and SalMar ASA will create an offshore fish farming company to open new