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Fresh Piracy Off West Africa Highlights Link to Overfishing.

Somalia: ID cards prove fishermen are not pirates.

Despite the availability of satellite navigation systems, and ships that are awash with electronics, maritime buoyage still matters, particularly in pilotage waters where visual aids provide the best possible way of marking a channel or identifying obstructions. These days, buoys can be "intelligent" in that they have radar reflectors to help them show up on ship radars, possibly fitted with electronic beacons that show up on electronic charts and even made individually identifiable through their own Automated Identification System signatures. Buoys still remain very useful indeed.

CEFAS scientists create first UK map of shipping 'noise'.

Why This Narrow Strait Next to Iran Is So Critical to the World's Oil Supply.

Panama deregisters oil tanker that strayed into Iranian waters.

Boaters and anglers needed to help remap waterways altered by Irma.

Russia's Donuzlav hydrographic vessel discovers four unknown zones in Red Sea.