NOAA's Fisheries Service today announced a new rule to lower significantly the fishing quotas for sandbar and porbeagle sharks in order to rebuild these depleted species. NOAA also will implement...
Over-fishing and demand for shark fins, an expensive delicacy, have pushed one of the world's iconic animals towards the brink of extinction, say experts
Fishermen caught nearly twice their legal quota of critically endangered bluefin tuna in European waters this year despite stocks being in a state of collapse, according to investigators
Italy, France, Japan and Spain are guilty of the biggest violations of international quotas for bluefin tuna fishing, a report claimed on Wednesday.
Countries are assigned fishing quotas by the...
The Icelandic government said on Friday it would cut cod fishing quotas by 30 percent - a move expected to dampen economic growth - to replenish dangerously low fish stocks.
Slashing the quotas...
WWF, the global environmental organisation, has condemned the outcome of the annual Fisheries Council decision on fishing quotas in EU waters for the coming year as "totally...
