While the total catch will fall well short of last year’s unprecedented 3168 tonnes, industry figures remain upbeat. “This year is down about one third from 2015 – which was an extraordinary season – ...

New vessel’s performance exceeds efficiency expectations, says Damen. Recently, the first in series Damen Shrimp Trawler 2607 successfully completed its sea trials in the Port of Hamriya, UAE. Damen ...

Recreational fishermen in the Northern Territory are venting concern over recent fish kills, which they say are being caused by prawn trawlers. The Nhulunbuy Fishing Club, on the north east Arnhem ...

Austral Fisheries chief executive David Carter said most of the estimated 4000-tonne catch would go to supermarkets to be snapped up by eager prawn devotees. Austral, which has 11 boats, is among the ...

THERE is good news for the boats in the northern prawn fishery contained in the latest tiger prawn survey results from the Gulf of Carpentaria. While indications are the coming banana prawn season ...

The R/V Lady Lisa, a 75-foot shrimp trawler, passed through area waters last week, on the way to the Cape Canaveral area to begin scientific research projects, for the first time since 2019. In past ...

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 ...

The Oculina Bank runs from Flagler Beach to Fort Pierce, is thousands of years old, and is found nowhere else in the world. Is it worth protecting?

It is the season of banana prawns in northern Australia, but trawler operators in the Gulf of Carpentaria say they are coming back to shore with not much in the nets. Queensland's late wet season ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Illustration of trawler at sea dragging fishing net to catch fish. [Courtesy] Caution has ...