Researchers using artificial intelligence algorithms to identify vessels in satellite images of the oceans have concluded that the majority of the world’s industrial fishing boats are not being ...

Large vessels operating off the coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas – including ships using the ports of Savannah and Brunswick – are flouting seasonal speed limits created to protect the endangered ...

Heather Welch receives funding from NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement. My colleagues and I mapped activity in the northeast Pacific of “dark” fishing vessels – boats that turn off their location ...

Several fishing vessels were determined by B.C. Supreme Court to be trespassing on Steveston Harbour Authority property.

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 ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- A large fishing vessel ran aground near Pier 16 at Honolulu Harbor, Monday afternoon. The vessel, Lady Anna, ran aground while attempting to dock at Pier 16, and made contact ...

China has defended itself as a “responsible fisheries country” after the unusual presence of its large fishing fleet off Chile raised concerns over declining catches in recent months. Chilean ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan. You ...