The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.

A consultation on extending a ban on bottom-trawler fishing to cover more marine protected areas (MPA) is currently ongoing. Fishermen fear restricting where they could catch would be economically ...

Fishermen in the Westcountry are furious that their French counterparts are continuing to fish in UK waters despite the post ...

Like many others across Britain, Sandycove needs help with a slip and other infrastructure, Barry Pickthall tells us.

Defra is widening protections from destructive fishing practices in UK seas, but has confirmed it is not planning 'to introduce whole-site bans on bottom towed fishing gear in MPAs' The government has ...

Despite the devastation trawlers have caused for decades and the global shame Thailand has suffered from their use of slave labour, trawlers are set to return to ravage the Thai seas with a vengeance.

Ghana passed a new fisheries act to support artisanal fishers and restore fish stocks that have been depleted by illegal, unregulated fishing. The new act expands Ghana's inshore exclusion zone — the ...

Cornwall Wildlife Trust said they received reports of a stranded leatherback turtle at a beach A leatherback turtle died after getting caught up in a fishing pot line, a wildlife trust has said. The ...

Jersey's Royal Court has heard from the Captain onboard Condor's Freight Ship - the Commodore Goodwill - the day it collided with a smaller fishing vessel. It was the fifth day of a trial on Friday 5 ...

Whilst other fishing communities are feeling the pinch, Mevagissey on Cornwall's south coast bucks the trend, with 74 working boats in the harbour. Protected from the prevailing winds, with fish ...