By Edward Carver Much of the world’s albacore tuna catch, which usually ends up in a can, comes from the southwestern Pacific ...

"Our priorities are albacore and high seas transshipment," Marshall Islands official says, as Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission members meet.

Every year, thousands of seabirds die as unintended victims of commercial fishing – caught on hooks or becoming tangled in ...

Longline fishing for tuna will remain closed in the Maldives, the island country’s president announced on Aug. 29. The decision came after local fishers, conservation NGOs and scientists protested ...

KAILUA-KONA, Hawai'i (Island News) -- A fishing vessel operating off the coast of Hawai‘i has been seized following multiple complaints of illegal longline fishing within the state’s territorial ...