commercial fishing
Why Do Fishing Vessels ‘Go Dark’ In Certain Regions of the Ocean?
A new report by the nonprofit Oceana spotlights weird cases of fishing vessels switching off their public trackers.
The EU Wants to Ban Sea Bass Fishing in the Atlantic
The European commission has proposed a ban on the commercial fishing of sea bass in the Atlantic and whiting in the waters of Scotland. The proposals would also reduce the "total allowable catch" for cod and sole.
What If We Had All Listened to NASA and Started Eating Krill?
We spoke to a bunch of marine researchers about what it would have been like if we actually started eating tons of krill like a NASA report once suggested.
Leonardo DiCaprio Is Tracking 35,000 of the World's Fishing Boats
DiCaprio says that the technology, called Global Fishing Watch, will "empower citizens across the globe to become powerful advocates for our oceans."
A Commercial Fishing Net Just Dumped 75,000 Dead Fish on Virginia’s Shore
Because the beaches are home to the endangered tiger beetle, cleanup crews can’t use heavy equipment, rakes, or shovels, and have to pick up the fish individually and put them into wheelbarrows.
President Obama's Shoes Just Got Violated by Salmon Sperm
The whole sticky situation is the result of a visit the President made to an isolated fishing village yesterday during his historic three-day trip to the largest American state: Alaska.
Fish Are Learning How to Avoid Getting Caught and We're All to Blame
According to experts, it seems that the fish in the ocean today have learned how to be less catchable than their predecessors—and it's changing with the fishing industry
Southern California's Seafood Industry Is Choking on Oil
When a Southern California pipeline burst last week, it sent 20,000 gallons of oil into the biologically dense Santa Barbara Channel. While volunteers are helping to scrub seabirds and shellfish clean, fishers are being forced further out to sea to...
Fishing Turf Wars Are Sucking the Life Out of Whitby, England
Home to Dracula's legacy and a vigorous tourism industry, Whitby is also the site of a war being waged by chartered sea anglers, commercial fisherman, and, now, scallop dredgers. In a way, it’s always been like this.
Deep Sea Fishing Threatens to Wipe Out a $150 Billion Carbon Sink
Marine life in the high seas soak up an amount of carbon equivalent to 30 percent of the US’s annual emissions.
The Japanese Can't Stop Eating Endangered Sea Mammals
We asked a Japanese company why it's making canned curry stew out of endangered seals and sea lions. (It's not even that good.)