Deep-sea fishing trawlers are never described as glamorous. They’re traditionally forward-heavy vessels built with ramps at the stern for hauling heavy catches onto the working aft deck. On the ...

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 ...

She is the flagship of the German deepsea fishing fleet the Maartje Theadora Built for oceangoing service the trawler is out in the fishing grounds of the Pacific for more than 300 days a year This ...

Four Chinese-flagged fishing trawlers were fined by South African authorities last month for contravening their authorisation to sail through national waters. But that is only one of several offences ...

A Chinese fishing company was fined R400,000 last month when four of its trawlers violated their conditions of passage through South African waters. Foreign trawlers compete with South African fishing ...