Deep-sea fishing trawlers are never described as glamorous. They’re traditionally forward-heavy vessels built with ramps at the stern for hauling heavy catches onto the working aft deck. On the ...
Fishermen in Alaska and elsewhere are trying to bring more attention to the impacts that trawlers are having on our marine resources.
A dive team discovered the wreck of the steam trawler Seiner, which sank in 1929 with 21 crew members. Shipwreck hunter Joe Mazraani, who co-led the expedition, died just two days after identifying ...
Gambian crews on international trawlers fishing on the country's shores have become the accidental targets of local fishermen's anger, whose livelihoods are threatened by the foreign vessels' ...
In March 2016, a fishing trawler capsized and bobbed helplessly in the churning South Atlantic after Argentine coastguard cutters opened fire. The vessel had refused to stop despite radio warnings, ...
The Tremont encountered the proverbial perfect storm while pulling up squid from the mid-Atlantic about 18 months ago. But unlike the now-famous Andrea Gail sinking off Nova Scotia in 1991 that ...