New vessel’s performance exceeds efficiency expectations, says Damen.Recently, the first in series Damen Shrimp Trawler 2607 ...

The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released its report into the grounding and subsequent loss of the Ocean ...

Prawn trawlers catch 10-20kg (22-44lb) of marine species in the tropics to obtain just 1kg (2.2lb) of prawns. But, according to the EJF, this "bycatch" is usually discarded, dead or dying ...

The skipper of a prawn trawler has described watching it sink off the Far North Queensland coast after a passing freighter came to the crew's rescue. The FV Santiago was about three kilometres ...

Kendrapara: Even though the Forest department’s seven-month-long fishing ban to protect Olive Ridley turtles came into force ...

the sudden announcement was made that an area known as the Clyde ‘cod box’, previously closed seasonally to whitefish trawlers, was now going to ban prawn trawlers, scallop dredgers and creelers.

Conservative estimates suggest that, on average, shrimp trawlers routinely kill and discard about three pounds of unintended “bycatch” for every pound of shrimp they haul in. The bycatch includes ...