The three owners of Seaview Crab Co. shelved their college degrees to take up a career in the seafood industry. At the time, they didn't know that their bait of choice would become the centerpiece of ...

An ongoing case in the Supreme Court, to decide whether the ban that several States have imposed on purse seine fishing is justified or not, has revealed the faultlines between small, marginal and ...

The European fishing fleet has long been a powerhouse at catching tuna, with a fleet of massive vessels known as purse ...

In what might seem like a time warp, purse seines, beach seines and fish traps will reappear up and down the Columbia River this summer. A Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife test of ...

MAYILADUTHURAI: The arrest of 37 fishers from Mayiladuthurai by the Sri Lankan Navy has sparked fresh concerns with the Lankan authorities seizing a purse seine fishing boat for the first time. On ...

NAGAPATTINAM: The tussle over the practice of purse seine fishing has made a comeback in the coastal delta region, unsettling fishers in Nagapattinam who on Tuesday met the district collector and ...

Fearing eventual elimination of their livelihood, Columbia River gillnetters have ripped Washington and Oregon officials over a program to test seines and other alternative commercial salmon fishing ...

Fishing communities on small islands in the Java Sea and farther afield have long complained that large purse seine vessels are encroaching on traditional fishing grounds. On Sembilan Island, between ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, allowed purse seine fishing outside the territorial waters of Tamil Nadu. "We have allowed this because we thought everybody should survive, that's all, ...

Catch-and-release salmon fishing on the Yukon River is being pitched to the Alaska Board of Fisheries, only this time there's a big twist. Where normally catch-and-release is thought of as a ...