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 ...

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 ...

Traditional fishermen are protesting new government rules for Exclusive Economic Zones, fearing they favor large corporations ...

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 ...

The estimated population of the critically endangered whale that traverses N.C. coastal waters has ticked up slightly for the ...

Where have all the bunker gone? That’s a question dogging Long Island fishermen, conservationists and whale-watching boat captains who report a relative dearth of the critical keystone species, also ...

New research has determined that a type of fishing known as bottom trawling is a major and unaccounted for source of carbon emissions. This method involves simply dragging a massive net along the ...

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