This WWF-commissioned report, researched and compiled by independent consultancy ATRT, is the first ever real estimate of the actual catch capability of the Mediterranean purse seine fleet targeting ...

A new report from the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) has found only a marginal lift in the global large-scale tropical tuna purse seine (known as LSPS) fishing fleet ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., JUNE 6 -- Sustainability-driven new research could one day help tuna fisheries cast their nets more selectively, mitigating unintentional "bycatch" of undersized fish and off-limits ...

Facing a second year of restricted fishing, some setnetters on the east side of Cook Inlet, in the US state of Alaska, are experimenting with purse seine gear as a workaround to salvage their season ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Tuna love to congregate around objects adrift at sea, so industrial fishing vessels release thousands of man-made plastic-heavy fish aggregating ...

Traditional fishermen have demanded a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the alleged illegal fishing practices using purse seine nets and LED lights, claiming these methods are destroying ...