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' ...

BANJUL, Gambia — Kawsu Leigh writhed in pain on the fishing boat, his burned skin as mottled as the paint on the deck beneath him. Raw and slick, the burns covered large parts of his upper body. His ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced the government's plan to deliver 200 deep-sea trawlers to coastal state fishermen ...

Imagine heavy nets, many miles wide, scraping the ocean floor, trapping all marine life in their wake. This is called trawling. It's a common fishing method that scientists say is devastating the ...

Much has been written about suspected sabotage of undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, but the UN says fishing trawlers, not spies, are causing most of the damage. "Generally, around 80 percent of cable ...

The Chinese distant water fishing fleet is comprised of thousands of trawlers working far from Chinese shores, often engaging in illegal fishing from the South Pacific to Western Africa.

Deputy Director of Fisheries Prasad Kar said each trawler from Andhra Pradesh had around eight to ten crew members, all of ...

Caution has been issued against foreign trawlers seeking to take advantage of the six months of prawn fishing along the shallow Coastal waters of Kilifi, Tana River, and Lamu. Trawlers are large boats ...

A severe cyclone has made the sea turbulent along Odisha’s coast, halting fishing. About 60 Andhra trawlers were caught in ...

Puri: Environmentalists and locals of Astaranga in Puri district raised alarms as trawlers continue to ply on the Devi river ...