Private security guards aboard a Spanish tuna fishing vessel repelled Sunday an attack from pirates in the Indian Ocean, the boat's captain said. Captain Santi Gamboa described on Spanish national radio how the crew of the boat, the Txori Argi, had seen ...
Better salmon season expected off West Coast this year, including reopening of Calif. fishery California's chinook salmon fishery is likely to be opened this year after two straight closed fishing seasons — but with restrictions, according to recommendations released Thursday by a ...
A sticker on the back of a fisherman's truck is seen outside the Knox County Courthouse, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in Rockland, Maine. Matinicus Island lobsterman Edwin Vance Bunker is on trial for allegedly shooting fellow lobsterman Chris Young last summer. Bunker's ...
<div id="subtitle">Fishery Council: Salmon season prospects dim in Calif., limited in Oregon; coho good in Wash.</div><div><p>There won't be much of a salmon season for fishermen off the California coast for the second year in a row.</p><p>The Pacific Fishery ...
<p>Red Snapper Overfishing in the South Atlantic</p><p>By Brian Graham</p><p></p><p>In a recent study by the Southeast Data, Assessment and Review (SEDAR), it was determined that red snapper are currently being overfished in the South Atlantic. The results of ...
<div><p>The Mediterranean tuna fishing season will be 15 days shorter this year with quotas and fleets also cut, EU sources said Wednesday: but environmentalists complained it was too little, too late.</p><p>The bluefin fishing season begins officially on Thursday and will end on ...
<div id="subtitle">Tougher rules to go into effect by 2010 to end overfishing of 40 marine species in US waters</div><div><p>Ocean conservationists are hailing former President Bush for passing tough rules to end the overfishing of 40 struggling marine species before he left the ...
<div id="subtitle">European Union wants drastic cut in fishing fleet to build up dwindling fish stocks</div><div><p>With almost all stocks overfished, the European Commission on Wednesday called for drastic cuts in the EU's 90,000-strong fishing fleet and subsidies to safeguard a sustainable and economically ...
<div id="subtitle">On the Chesapeake, there are fragile hopes for the blue crab's revival</div><div><p>Chesapeake Bay crabber Paul Kellam has advice for the teenage boys who help tend his traps every summer: You better have a backup plan.</p><p>It's an ...
<div><p>Shrimp, an important source of income for developing countries, is increasingly threatened by overfishing, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned Tuesday.</p><p>Overfishing of shrimp in turn degrades ecologically important seagrass beds and coastal habitats, the Rome-based UN agency said in a report ...
