In addition to forced labor, the survey identified several substantial challenges for workers in the region’s seafood and fishing industries, including high recruitment costs, inadequate wage ...

This is a joint media release from the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and Australian Border Force (ABF).Four Indonesian nationals ...

While the NGOs claim bottom trawling in MPAs is a violation of EU law, the practice has only been prohibited by a handful of member states at the national level. In 2024, Greece became the first EU ...

In the coastal waters of Florida, this method showed impressive results, reducing shark catch by about two-thirds.

Rapid DNA tests, x-ray fluorescence guns, and other technologies are being deployed in the fight against wildlife trafficking ...

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission has voted 6-1 to deny a petition that requested crab fishery rules be modified to further reduce the risk of whale entanglement, while urging ...

Unintentional catch is a big reason that more than a hundred shark species are threatened with extinction. Yet creating a small electric field around fishing hooks using cheap inputs — zinc and ...

A scientific team from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC) is leading a study to assess the impact of passive fishing gear on benthic habitats in the Cantabrian Sea, to support ...

RIVER BAY, St James — There is a gift waiting for fisherman Leonard Cunningham. His wife Andeen Ledgister, who is determined ...

Under normal circumstances, Shane Pitter probably would have been on the water.

The threat of sea debris can be in the obvious the threat of something being stuck to something that is unable to put it down ...

Last month, a wildlife photographer named John Kowitz went on a boat ride off the coast of Kona, Hawaii, to capture some drone shots of humpback whales.