A Cypriot tanker is being been detained in the eastern Canadian province of Newfoundland after a reported collision between a cargo ship and a U.S. trawler off the coast of Massachusetts killed three ...

Gambian crews on international trawlers fishing on the country's shores have become the accidental targets of local fishermen's anger, whose livelihoods are threatened by the foreign vessels' ...

Sperm and northern bottlenose whales were frequently observed following a trawler off the coast of Newfoundland to feed on fish escaping from the net as it was hauled in, according to a study ...

Trawling of the ocean floor by fishing fleets releases roughly the same amount of carbon emissions into the water as aviation ...

Canada has released a Spanish trawler it seized last week for fishing in disputed North Atlantic waters. The move Wednesday defused a diplomatic standoff with Europe. Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin ...