In an effort to reduce albatross deaths as bycatch of longline fishing, Global Fishing Watch (GFW) and Birdlife International researchers are using machine learning models to determine if fishing ...

A new generation fishing vessel was built by OAO Leningrad Shipyard Pella, Otradnoye, Russia, under the survey of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS). The vessel launching ceremony was held on ...

A new study reveals information about the shifting identities of the global fishing fleet, which can help tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) fishing. The research combines a ...

The Ying Rong No 638 was among the vessels that answered the U.S. Coast Guard’s call to help with a rescue, and at midnight found the Sea Smile’s crew in the darkness and took them aboard. Ying Rong ...

Purse seining, a method where a floating net is drawn together like a closing purse to catch fish, was detected in 17 percent of the ocean. Global Fishing Watch This map shows total fishing activity ...

HONOLULU — A commercial fishing crew and a federal observer were rescued after their vessel sank and they spent hours in a life raft hundreds of miles off the coast of Hawaii Island, the U.S. Coast ...

The United States Department of Justice announced today that it has fined Azure Fishery LLC and related parties a total of $475,000 in civil penalties for various violations of the Clean Water Act, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A small fisheries technology firm armed with computers and hydrophones is trying to locate and silence the dinner bell that attracts pods of killer whales to longline vessels ...

HONOLULU-- Khanh Huynh has been a commercial fisherman since he was 12 years old. For the past six years, he's been living on a fishing boat in Hawaii, catching premium ahi tuna for some of the ...

Have you ever wondered how much commercial fishing actually takes place on the planet’s oceans? Unlike agriculture and forestry, it has been difficult, if not impossible, to get a good handle on the ...

David Sims receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. Unlike the many species which stalk the shallow, coastal waters that fisheries exploit all year round, pelagic sharks roam ...

Mar. 4—A Taiwanese fishing vessel crew and members of the Coast Guard on Oahu worked together to find and rescue the crew of a Honolulu tuna longliner that was sinking 545 miles southwest of Hawaii on ...