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 ...

In a relief to fishermen of Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Tuesday conditionally allowed Purse Seine Fishing beyond the territorial waters of the state but within the exclusive economic zone. Purse ...

A Colville Tribes selective harvest crew aboard the Dream Catcher uses a purse seine to capture and harvest hatchery-born summer chinook and sockeye. The method allows them to release natural origin ...

The Billfish Foundation sent a formal letter Aug. 8 to Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla urging her to investigate recent attacks on sportfishing vessels in Costa Rican waters. The letter came ...

Fearing eventual elimination of their livelihood, Columbia River gillnetters have ripped Washington and Oregon officials over a program to test seines and other alternative commercial salmon fishing ...

FAIRBANKS — Alaska’s Board of Fisheries voted 5-2 Saturday to not approve a new type of commercial chum salmon fishing gear in the lower Yukon River. In one of the board’s most contested decisions of ...

The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council has reaffirmed the purse seine closures for the CNMI and other U.S. Pacific Islands on Monday. The closure around the CNMI and Guam would ...

Milton Saudia, coordinator of the Traditional Fishermen Protection Committee, highlighted that purse seine and LED fishing are causing severe damage to both the livelihood of small-scale fishermen and ...

The Supreme Court interim order allowing purse seine fishing on the Tamil Nadu coast albeit with stringent regulations has caused mixed reactions from the fishing community. Some fisherfolk say the ...

MAYILADUTHURAI: Declaring that there are no more registered purse seine fishers in the district after the lone three who were permitted to resort to the fishing method are said to be switching back to ...