Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two large fishing boats at sea. Earth-observing satellites have helped detect previously unmapped global fishing vessels, ...

An international study using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence revealed that many of the world’s marine protected areas, otherwise known as MPAs, are largely free of industrial fishing, ...

Three-quarters of the world’s large fishing boats and a quarter of transport and energy ships are “dark vessels” that do not publicly share their location. The finding comes from an analysis of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The global fishing fleet has more than doubled from about 1.7 million boats harvesting fish in 1950 to 3.7 million fishing vessels in 2015. More ...

What comes to mind when you hear the word “fishing”? A supertrawler unloading a massive net bursting with fish onto its deck, attended by a dozen crewmembers? Or a pair of fishers casting their lines ...