Martin Gilbert regularly works 14 hours a day to make a living, while competing with large EU vessels that destroy his gear ...

The Marine Accident and Investigation Branch is investigating an accident on a trawler, which saw a fisherman lose a limb.

The Catholic maritime charity Stella Maris is urging the U.K. government to take action to protect fishermen following a BBC program that shows cases of modern-day slavery on fishing vessels. Stella ...

Trawler TN-20 ‘Sea Lady’ moored at Portsmouth in a file photo. (Credit: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0/Clive G.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – After a television documentary accused a Scottish fishing company ...

Dozens of foreign workers may have been trafficked into the UK to work for TN Trawlers, a small, family-owned fishing company based in Annan, Scotland, reports BBC. According to data from the Home ...

The Scottish government has initiated a public consultation that could lead to the ban on bottom-trawl fishing across 20 offshore marine protected areas (MPAs). This move aims to protect Scotland's ...

Gambian crews on international trawlers fishing on the country's shores have become the accidental targets of local fishermen's anger, whose livelihoods are threatened by the foreign vessels' ...

Much has been written about suspected sabotage of undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, but the UN says fishing trawlers, not spies, are causing most of the damage. "Generally, around 80 percent of cable ...

Shipwrecks are a surprising haven for marine life in areas where there is heavy fishing, scientists have discovered. To reach these findings, a group of British scientists studied five shipwrecks off ...