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 natural smile Mother Nature has placed on dolphins’ faces, combined with their high level of intelligence, are two reasons why virtually everyone loves them. That sentiment is certainly widespread ...

A new report from the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has found only a marginal lift in the global large-scale tropical tuna purse seine (known as LSPS) fishing fleet ...

Increasing catch levels of yellowfin tuna and the lack of any effective control of fishing effort by management: WWF believes that the Echebastar Indian Ocean purse-seine tuna fishery cannot be yet ...

This picture of early tuna purse seining operations in the tropical Pacific Ocean illustrates the potential for fishermen to inadvertently catch dolphins and other marine mammals as byproduct.

The clock is ticking on an effort by local baymen to maintain a sustainable local fishery for Atlantic menhaden through legislation that would ban large commercial purse seine boats from gobbling up ...

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 ...