A sprawling analysis of ocean traffic reveals that 75 percent of industrial fishing vessels are not publicly tracked, with the bulk of untracked fishing taking place in Southeast Asia. For the study, ...
A humpback whale surfaces near two trawlers. All are pursuing Antarctic krill. Youenn Kerdavid/Sea Shepherd Global, CC BY-ND Today a new threat is emerging: industrial fishing for Antarctic krill – ...
Photographer Mark J. Davis documents the struggle of local producers to maintain their livelihood as large-scale, commercial operations plunder the traditional fisheries, leaving them with little to ...
BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Louisiana chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) conducted polling recently after lawmakers debated creating a buffer zone to protect the coastal ...
African penguins are running out of room to hunt. As industrial fishing fleets sweep through the same coastal waters, the ...
Industrial fishing is prohibited in the coastal waters of the Cantagallo-Machalilla Marine Reserve in Ecuador’s Manabí province, which is home to numerous threatened species. Yet between November 2020 ...
Two legislative proposals seek to amend a law the Peruvian Congress passed unanimously in 2023 that recognizes artisanal fishers and promotes the protection of the sea within 5 nautical miles of shore ...