Year: 2024

In 2018, on November 15, requiem and hammerhead sharks landed in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (Image credit: Nidhi Gloria D’Costa) An estimated 80 million sharks are dying in fisheries each year despite global regulations aimed at protecting them from finning, scientists have discovered. In a study published Jan. 11 in the journal Science, researchers used data from…

Essex-Built and Out O' Gloucester: The Legendary Schooners that Fished the Northwest Atlantic in the Age of Sail, a new book by Willard E. Andrews, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. The fast, able, and beautiful Essex-built schooners that fished out of Gloucester during the latter half of the nineteenth century and early…

Fishing boats off the coast of Angola. (Image credit: Getty Images) Earth-observing satellites have helped detect previously unmapped global fishing vessels, revealing nearly 75% of the world's industrial activity at sea was "hidden" from public view. Using satellite imagery from 2017-2021, vessel GPS data and machine learning software, a team led by the Global Fishing Watch…

Traveling through the mountains and up the coast allowed us to take in the scale of what happened. Every village we passed was damaged and appeared eerily empty of people. The tsunami warning forced extensive evacuations, and few people had yet to return. Officials have urged people to stay away from their homes for now because…

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Access to financing, the support of a peer group, and a general awareness of environmental problems are all factors that make it more likely a fisher will switch to using eco-friendly gear, a new study shows.The findings come from a three-month survey of nearly 650 blue swimming crab fishers on the north coast of the…

By the time the fishermen of Corner Inlet start to haul in their nets, the gulls and terns have arrived to supervise the catch.     As the nets contract, the vast array of marine life supported by this bay, near the southern-most tip of mainland Australia, is slowly revealed — stingrays, sharks, sardines, crabs and…

Gone fishing? Depending on the lake, your catch may not be safe to eat.  A group of chemicals collectively known as PFAS are found in hundreds of consumer goods, including dental floss, rain jackets and nonstick cookware. Over decades, these chemicals have spewed from manufacturing plants and landfills into local ecosystems, polluting surface water and…