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A naval exercise passed beneath this fishing boat - then it vanished in seconds

In November 1990, the fishing trawler Antares was working its nets in the deep waters of Scotland’s Firth of Clyde when disaster struck. At the same time, a Royal Navy submarine was conducting a ...
Mongabay

Small-scale fishers lose out to trawlers in race to catch Cambodia’s last fish

On Cambodia’s coast, fish catches have dropped precipitously in recent years, and so have small-scale fishers’ incomes. Small-scale fishers say commercial trawlers have been illegally entering their ...
Post and Courier

SC-bound cargo ship sinks a fishing trawler: Here's how it went down.

The Tremont encountered the proverbial perfect storm while pulling up squid from the mid-Atlantic about 18 months ago. But unlike the now-famous Andrea Gail sinking off Nova Scotia in 1991 that ...
Mongabay

Ghana to expand artisanal fishing zone amid trawler violations

Ghana has announced plans to expand the area in which small-scale fishers can operate, in response to persistent violations by industrial trawlers encroaching into this zone. The country’s inshore ...