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Climate Change Impacts Fishing Industry While Ocean Science Lags Behind

Climate Change Impacts Fishing Industry While Ocean Science Lags Behind

May 21, 2013

With a limberness that defies his 69 years, Frank Mirarchi heaves himself over the edge of a concrete wharf and steps out onto a slack, more…

North Korea Seized Chinese Boat

North Korea Seized Chinese Boat

May 20, 2013

China revealed on Sunday that North Korea seized a Chinese fishing boat this month and detained its crewmen, who remain in custody, an episode likely more…

Fishermen Develop New Business Models to Save Their Communities

Fishermen Develop New Business Models to Save Their Communities

May 16, 2013

Theresa Peterson has been an Alaska fisherman for three decades. During summer break one year in college she went to Homer, Alaska, to work in a more…

Asia’s Next High Seas Drama

Asia’s Next High Seas Drama

May 14, 2013

The 15-tonne Kuang Ta Hsing No. 28was docked at the Ta Fu fishing port on Siaoliouciou, off Pingtung County in Taiwan’s south. Forensic technicians were busy more…

Fish Piracy Costs $10 to $23 Billion a Year

Fish Piracy Costs $10 to $23 Billion a Year

May 9, 2013

Fish piracy - seafood caught illegally, not reported to authorities or outside environmental and catch regulations - represents as much as $10 billion to $23 more…

Jobs wanted: Somali ex-pirates seek employment

Jobs wanted: Somali ex-pirates seek employment

May 7, 2013

For a fearsome pirate, even one in self-declared retirement, there is a notable lack of what literature has led one to expect: cutlass, eye-patch, hook more…

125-pound Opah Fish Caught in Southern California

125-pound Opah Fish Caught in Southern California

May 7, 2013

Anglers and crew aboard a Southern California half-day boat were astonished last week to see what the captain had reeled from the depths: a stunningly more…

Legal Battle Over Who Owns the Fish in the Sea

Legal Battle Over Who Owns the Fish in the Sea

May 3, 2013

The High Court is being asked to make a judgement over the question of who owns the fish in the sea. The government wants to reallocate more…

Ship sinks, U.S. tourists swim for nearly 14 hours in shark-infested waters

Ship sinks, U.S. tourists swim for nearly 14 hours in shark-infested waters

April 30, 2013

The fishing trip off the rugged north coast of St. Lucia was supposed to last all day, but about four hours into the journey, the more…

20 Pounds? Not Too Bad, for an Extinct Fish

20 Pounds? Not Too Bad, for an Extinct Fish

April 24, 2013

For most fishermen a 20-pound trout is a trophy, but for Paiute tribe members and fish biologists here the one Matt Ceccarelli caught was a more…