April 17 (UPI) --U.S. commercial fishers can operate in the formerly off-limits Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, President Donald Trump announced Thursday. "Commercial fishing is ...

The opioid epidemic has made a dangerous job even more deadly. And when there’s an overdose at sea, fishermen have to take care of one another. By C.J. Chivers The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the ...

A global treaty has extended trade protections to more than 70 shark and ray species whose numbers are in sharp decline. By Alexa Robles-Gil First, Newport, Ore., lost its Coast Guard rescue chopper.

Skipjack tuna at a fish market in the Philippines Obsidian Soul via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ...

Commercial fisheries in the Great Lakes hope to follow an example set in Iceland, by using nearly 100 percent of a fish in order to increase the value of each one landed while also decreasing waste.

With 820 million people globally going hungry, the scandal of fish waste is especially shocking. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) about 35% of all fish, mollusks and ...

The 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California will be closed for an unprecedented third year running, and sportfishing will be restricted to only a few days due to dwindling numbers of fish, ...

“I started out fishing with my father in the river,” said the 66-year-old commercial fisherman. “I picked up on all that information just by watching. I was fishing with him from 7 or 8 years old.” ...

The largest commercial fishing industry in the Gulf of Mexico is accidentally killing and discarding more than 22,000 redfish annually in Louisiana waters, according to an independent study released ...