A sprawling analysis of ocean traffic reveals that 75 percent of industrial fishing vessels are not publicly tracked, with the bulk of untracked fishing taking place in Southeast Asia. For the study, ...

As some of the oceans’ fiercest predators, sharks were once presumed to be safe from overfishing 5. Yet when shark-targeted commercial fisheries were developed in the mid-twentieth century, this ...

Researchers using artificial intelligence algorithms to identify vessels in satellite images of the oceans have concluded that the majority of the world’s industrial fishing boats are not being ...

A humpback whale surfaces near two trawlers. All are pursuing Antarctic krill. Youenn Kerdavid/Sea Shepherd Global, CC BY-ND Today a new threat is emerging: industrial fishing for Antarctic krill – ...

New research shows that a small-scale Mexican fishery -- operated by hand from small open boats -- can kill as many critically endangered loggerhead sea turtles as all of the industrial fishing fleets ...

For some fishers in Tanzania’s Kilwa district who were among the first to receive fishing boats under a government-sponsored ...

It’s easy to spot the small, family-owned fishing boats that ply the waters around Baja California­—a peninsula 1,223 km (760 miles) long that represents the westernmost part of Mexico. There are ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The global fishing fleet has more than doubled from about 1.7 million boats harvesting fish in 1950 to 3.7 million fishing vessels in 2015. More ...

African waters have been contributing to the global supply of fish for years, with three of the four most productive marine ecosystems in the world near the continent. African countries’ Exclusive ...