A GIANT cardboard cod toured the winter streets of Kingston Upon Hull. Written across it in blood-red paint were the words: “It’s not the fish you’re buying, it’s men’s lives.”The winter of 1968 was a ...

Researchers filmed a 10-to-13-foot sleeper shark off the South Shetland Islands, in what may be the first recording of the ...

Rameswaram fishermen detained 10 Karaikal fishermen, along with their boat, in protest against the Karaikal-based fishermen ...

Japan is spending five weeks mining the sea floor. It is a technological milestone — and a stress test for how nations balance geopolitics, clean energy demand, and environmental risk.

As countries commit to bans on bottom trawling, an island community in Cambodia is implementing its own method: dropping large cement blocks in near-shore waters. These not only snag trawling boats’ ...

In recent months, the fishing industry has found itself at a crossroads as new regulations by the fisheries minister Emelia Arthur have pushed the fishing zone from 6 to 12 nautical miles offshore.

The Chinese polar research icebreaker Xuelong completed all scheduled oceanographic survey operations in the Amundsen Sea and ...

Saltwick Bay is a beautiful and dramatic stretch of sand just a short walk from Whitby and is steeped in history with fossils, shipwrecks and unrivalled sunrises ...

Seabed 2030 aims to map the entirety of the ocean floor by 2030, but is it a possible endeavour – and what have they found so far?

Beneath the ocean’s rolling surface, there are mountains. Not the snowy peaks you hike, but vast, underwater volcanoes rising ...

In November 1990, the fishing trawler Antares was working the deep waters of the Firth of Clyde when it suddenly became ...