QatarcondemnedaBahrainistatementaccusingQatarofillegallyseizingitsboatsandfishermen,Qatarnewsagency(QNA)reportedTuesday.Qatardescribedthestatementasadesperateat
ThefateoftenpeopleaboardafishingvesselisunknownaftertheirboatcapsizedonTuesdaymorningintheYellowSea,offthecoastofeastChina'sShandongProvince.TheWeihaiMaritimeSe
Atleast12IndianfishermenfromsouthernstateofTamilNaduwereapprehendedalongwiththeirfishingboatsbySriLankannavy,India'sstate-runAllIndiaRadio(AIR)saidTuesday.Thefi
Oneofthemostbeautifulroadsintheworldcannowbeexperiencedfromthecomfortofyourarmchair.Norway’sreveredAtlanticOceanRoad(or“Atlanterhavsveien”)offersascenicjourneyt
ChineseshipFuYuanYuLeng999didn’tconductillegalfishing,ChineseAmbassadortoEcuadorWangYulinsaidonThursday.Wangsaiditwasarefrigeratorshipratherthanafishingvesselan
Indonesia's navy shot and wounded four Vietnamese fishermen aboard a fishing boat in the South China Sea at the weekend, Vietnamese authorities said.
Indonesia'snavyshotandwoundedfourVietnamesefishermenaboardafishingboatintheSouthChinaSeaattheweekend,Vietnameseauthoritiessaid.TheVietnameseboatwasabout132nauti
With a swift breath the teenage boy dives into the turquoise waters of southern Myanmar, a spear clutched in his hand, but below him lies nothing but a graveyard of broken, grey coral.
It took years for the UN Development Program to convince the fishing communities along India's tropical western coast that the diamond-mesh nets they were using were trapping baby fish, while a square-shaped mesh could allow small fish to escape to maintain a breeding population.
IttookyearsfortheUNDevelopmentProgramtoconvincethefishingcommunitiesalongIndia'stropicalwesterncoastthatthediamond-meshnetstheywereusingweretrappingbabyfish,whi
Sri Lanka on Thursday arrested 10 Indian fishermen for poaching in Sri Lankan waters.
A Chinese fishing boat sank in west waters off South Korea on Tuesday afternoon, with seven people rescued but one still missing, South Korea's coast guard said.
The world's largest marine reserve aimed at protecting the pristine wilderness of Antarctica will be created after a "momentous" agreement was finally reached Friday, with Russia dropping its long-held opposition.
Indonesia will cap its Independence Day celebrations on Wednesday (Aug 17) by scuttling as many as 71 impounded foreign vessels - mostly Vietnamese but also a handful of Chinese - to signal its determination to protect its sovereignty over lucrative fishing grounds in the South China Sea.
Myanmar authorities will take action starting this month against rule-breaking fishing vessels in the country's territorial waters during the fishing moratorium season, according to the Department of fisheries Thursday.
A special event was held at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters here on Monday to celebrate the first binding treaty tackling illegal fishing ever reached at global level, and its recent entry into force.
The Vietnamese foreign ministry has sent a diplomatic note denouncing shooting at Vietnamese fishing boats and urged Thailand to probe the incident.