Fishers may be turning to piracy to make up for a loss of income. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Pirates attack more often in ...

Indiana lawmakers are considering a bill that would restrict how minnows are collected from the state's waterways. (Getty Images) An Indiana bill up for debate intends to crack down on what some ...

A new investigation of maritime piracy reveals that pirate attacks occur more frequently in locations where destructive and illegal fishing practices take place. Raj Desai and George Shambaugh of ...

Bottom trawling is a practice used by commercial fisheries around the world in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the ocean floor to scoop up everything in its path. Previous research has ...

In 2011, a destructive fishing practice known as muroami was banned in Karimunjawa National Park off Indonesia’s Java Island. In 2012-2013, the overall biomass of herbivorous fish species in the park ...

When the EU advanced its 2030 biodiversity strategy by closing vulnerable marine ecosystems to bottom fishing on 9 October 2022, it was hailed as a visionary step on a global scale. Just one year on, ...

A long-awaited report by the United Nations shows the need for an international moratorium on bottom-trawling and other destructive fishing practices that damage deep sea life. A long-awaited report ...

Catching coral reef fish for the aquarium trade used to mean using cyanide or even dynamite, which destroyed much of the reef ecosystem. Today the trend is to use non-destructive methods such as ...

The Philippine Coast Guard has published images showing environmental destruction allegedly caused by Chinese fishing in the contested South China Sea. The photos "document the destructive actions of ...

Greenpeace campaigners of Operation Ocean Witness are fighting to stop destructive fishing in marine protected areas off the south England coast. Marine protected areas are parts of the sea where ...

President Bush called for a halt to all types of destructive fishing on the high seas Tuesday, saying the United States will work to eliminate practices such as bottom trawling that devastate fish ...

The frigid waters off Japan’s eastern coast teem with sardines, mackerel, anchovy and scallop. They are some of Asia’s most fertile fishing grounds, inspiring an exquisite seafood-rich national ...