Etiket: Fishing

Small-scale fisheries provide food and employment to millions of people all over the world. But today the profession is at risk. Climate change, pollution and overfishing have caused catches to decrease. And as fishers leave the profession, entire communities are affected.

Concerns are growing that Russia could once again use its veto-like powers to block new marine protected areas and rules to prevent overfishing ...

Urgent action is required to save Scotland's rapidly declining salmon population, according to some of the country's fishermen and ecologists ...

Activists dropped giant boulders into the English Channel off of Land's End in Cornwall in the latest attempt by Greenpeace UK to try and prevent ...

The plight of vaquitas has only worsened in recent years, but scientists have some relatively good news about the little porpoise. Despite only ...

Dutch farmers began a day of protests in the Netherlands on Monday by blocking supermarket distribution hubs in several cities. They are angered ...

The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish has been discovered in the Mekong River in Cambodia, say scientists. The giant stingray measured ...

In a gripping underwater rescue, Spanish divers have freed a 12-metre long humpback whale entangled in an illegal drift net off the Balearic ...

A Spanish fishing trawler sank in stormy waters off Canada last week, leaving 21 sailors dead or missing, because its engine failed, the owner of ...

The world's second-biggest fishing vessel has shed over 100,000 dead fish into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of France. Campaign group Sea ...

France will ask the European Commission to start legal action against the United Kingdom over post-Brexit fishing licences, the government ...