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Échouement du fileyeur « Les 6 frères de Lucie » : le BEAmer pointe l'absence de remorque adaptée.

Underwater 'ghost nets' posing threat to marine ecosystem off Kerala.

The Gulf of Carpentaria off Australia's northern coast has one of the highest rates of abandoned fishing nets, or so-called ghostnets, anywhere in the world. In fact, up to three tonnes of netting washes ashore each year for every kilometre of coastline.

Saving olive ridleys of the Indian Ocean.

Somalia: Puntland says fishing trawler opens fire on herders.

Baby whale shark rescued from gillnet in India (VIDEO).

Lowering gillnets into the water - instead of using them on the surface - can lower the chances of tuna fishermen accidentally hauling in dolphins and whales, according to new research led by FIU and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Pakistan.

Cochin Shipyard will build 16 tuna vessels.

The simple use of a net intended to curb malaria by fishers has become a classic conservation problem.

The simple use of a net intended to curb malaria by fishers has become a classic conservation problem.

Mobile app encourages Indian fishers to free entangled whale sharks.

KENDRAPARA: Ahead of the mass nesting of Olive RIDLEY sea turtles, beaches off Gahirmatha coast have turned into graveyard for these delicate marine animals with thousands of decomposed carcasses spotted along a shoreline.

'Seahorses endangered due to rising demand, fishing nets'.

Critically endangered sawfish sold by fishermen for meat.

Rare 700-kg sawfish chokes to death after Maharashtra fisherman nets it.

According to the latest report on the state of World Food and Agriculture Organization fisheries and aquaculture (SOFIA, 2022), skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis) and yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) are among the five most caught finfish species of the world, with 2,827 and 1,569 thousand tons in 2020, respectively. The tropical purse seiners deploy large nets around tuna schools in the tropical waters of the world. This method targets three main tuna species, skipjack, yellowfin and bigeye (Thunnus obesus) tunas, which are mainly used for canning or frozen markets. This important fishery provides employment opportunities for many people in developing countries. Landings for the European long-distance fishery targeting tuna and tuna-like fishes from Indian Ocean, amounted to 303,638 tons valued at EUR 423.7 million (Prellezo et al., 2022), where the Spanish fleet of purse seiners targeting tropical tuna is the most important. The Spanish tropical purse seine fleet fishing in the Indian Ocean accounts for 26% of the skipjack and yellowfin tunas caught from Indian Ocean, which represent approximately 3% of worldwide catch for both species.

Thousands of turtles, marine animals victims of plastic fishing nets polluting Gulf of Carpentaria.

Kerala wakes up to ghosts of plastics haunting the Arabian Sea.