Submarine cables form the backbone of global communications, carrying approximately 99 percent of the world's internet traffic - Copyright AFP/File ANDER GILLENEA ...

Virgin Media is suing an Irish fishing trawler for $870,000 over damage to an undersea cable. The telecoms giant claims that the trawler damaged a fiber optic cable while fishing for scallops. The ...

Caution has been issued against foreign trawlers seeking to take advantage of the six months of prawn fishing along the shallow Coastal waters of Kilifi, Tana River, and Lamu. Trawlers are large boats ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. “This last factor will drive away stocks of small pelagic fish even if the illegal fishing and the overfishing is brought under control,” paper ...

The trawl deck of the Alaska Warrior is seen on March 28, 2008, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. (Photo by Petty Officer Sara Francis/Coast Guard) An advertiser-sponsored article in the Seattle Times gushed ...

SEOUL,9th February, 2025 (WAM) – A fishing trawler sank in waters off South Korea's southern coast early Sunday, leaving three people dead and six missing, officials said, with rescue efforts under ...

Odisha forest officials arrested 34 fishermen for illegal fishing within Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, a protected zone for Olive Ridley turtles. Two trawlers were seized, and the offenders have been ...

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 ...

Much has been written about suspected sabotage of undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, but the UN says fishing trawlers are causing the most damage by far, rather than spies. Western officials have ...