MAYILADUTHURAI: The arrest of 37 fishers from Mayiladuthurai by the Sri Lankan Navy has sparked fresh concerns with the Lankan authorities seizing a purse seine fishing boat for the first time. On ...

An ongoing case in the Supreme Court, to decide whether the ban that several States have imposed on purse seine fishing is justified or not, has revealed the faultlines between small, marginal and ...

The three owners of Seaview Crab Co. shelved their college degrees to take up a career in the seafood industry. At the time, they didn't know that their bait of choice would become the centerpiece of ...

NAGAPATTINAM: The tussle over the practice of purse seine fishing has made a comeback in the coastal delta region, unsettling fishers in Nagapattinam who on Tuesday met the district collector and ...

Fishing communities on small islands in the Java Sea and farther afield have long complained that large purse seine vessels are encroaching on traditional fishing grounds. On Sembilan Island, between ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, allowed purse seine fishing outside the territorial waters of Tamil Nadu. "We have allowed this because we thought everybody should survive, that's all, ...

The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government on a plea challenging the state’s decision to ban the use of purse seine nets for fishing. The Supreme Court ...

Kongsberg Digital concluded a new project funded by FHF (the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund) for the development of its K-Sim Fishery simulator to incorporate a new purse seine application. The new ...

Alternattiva Demokratika has welcomed the cessation of purse seine fishing imposed by the European Commission. As from midnight last night, no purse seiner from any EU member state except Spain can ...