Recognizing that many commercial fishing stocks are being harvested to the verge of collapse, the world's seafaring nations have promised to make the first far-reaching cuts in their fishing fleets.

The U.S. government is preparing its most sweepingendangered-species ruling ever in a heavily urban area to protect the dwindling salmon population in the Pacific Northwest. Costly local and state

The Centre would soon be constituting a committee, headed by a fisheries professional, to study the problems and prospects of the domestic deepsea fishing industry , Union minister of state for

Greenpeace revealed that it now believes the pirate shipping vessel on the run from the MV Arctic Sunrise in the Southern Ocean is the same vessel found guilty of fishing illegally last October by

A high-powered committee is being constituted by the Government to study the problems and prospects of the deep sea fishing industry in the country, according to Mr. Som Pal Union Minister of State

The European Commission has cleared ways for 27 processing houses to export frozen seafood to European countries for an indefinite period. Meanwhile it withdrew the one-year deadline for six units

New measures to prevent red tides from threatening fish farms have been put into effect as the tides return to the SAR (Hong Kong). Two non-toxic red tides have been detected off the coast of Sai

The Ministry of Agriculture has set a zero growth rate this year for the country's fishing industry in a bid to stop exessive fishing in coastal waters and to ensure sustainable growth in the area.

Greenpeace found a pirate ship fishing illegally for Patagonian toothfish in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. The international environmental group sent its icebreaker, the MC Arctic Sunrise, to

All sea and fresh water fishing enthusiasts will soon berequired to obtain permits and licences to catch fish, Malaysia's Agriculture Minister Datuk Amar Dr Sulaiman Daud said