Navigation for News Categories A fishing boat was fined thousands over reporting failures while trawling. Photo: 123RF Nelson fishing company Westfleet Fishing, its skipper and first mate have been fined a total of almost $70,000 for failing to weigh and report coral caught in their net when bottom trawling. The fishing vessel Tasman Viking was…

Fae Farm is an upcoming farming simulator with towns to explore, fishing, home decorating, dungeons and combat.By David Ahmadi and Jessica Howard on June 12, 2023 at 5:33PM PDT The game takes place in the enchanted world of Azoria, and has plenty of characters to meet with relationships you can build. The farming simulator looks…

Small-scale fishers in Liberia are using a data collection platform to document cases of illegal activity at sea.Artisanal fishers have long borne the brunt of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, some of it occurring within an inshore exclusion zone that extends 6 nautical miles from shore.Through the use of a mobile app called DASE,…

Lifelong fisherman Eric Osinskie was fishing in Catskill Creek, New York state, when he caught the bizarre creature that was a 'cross between an eel and a leech'The strange creature caught by Mr Osinskie (Image: Credit: Eric Osinskie/Pen News)A blood-sucking “vampire fish” has been caught with a mouthful of swirling teeth – and it looks…

As warming waters threaten fish populations and disrupt fisheries around the world, it is critical to find ways to sustain fisheries while at the same time allowing those fisheries to remain economically viable to those who depend on them for their livelihoods. In the United States, commercial fishing employs 1.2 million Americans and generates more…

Subsidies are making a bit of a comeback in Western economies, but there’s one area where they can be deadly: global fishing. Governments are subsidizing the industry, and the industry is overfishing.  Atlantic bluefin tuna and orange roughy, once commonly on the American restaurant menu, are now making appearances on growing endangered lists. At this rate, the implications extend…

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The federal government has approved the ratification of six maritime conventions and protocols that promote cleaner marine environment, ship-breaking criteria, global standard for fishing crew and response to oil pollution casualties.The approved instruments for ratification are Hong Kong International Convention for Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships 2009; International Convention on Standards of Training…

Justice Leighton Pusey on Wednesday told 22-year-old confessed murderer Corey Walters that his argument claiming he was influenced by friends to commit the crime would not be bought, and subsequently handed him a 20-year and three-month sentence for the killing of a woman at a fishing village. Walters was also sentenced to 15 years at…