Scotland has designated 37% of its waters as marine protected areas, but destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling continue in most of these zones. Fisherman Bally Philp, who works off the ...

Dozens of foreign workers may have been trafficked into the UK to work for TN Trawlers, a small, family-owned fishing company based in Annan, Scotland, reports BBC. According to data from the Home ...

The Catholic maritime charity Stella Maris is urging the U.K. government to take action to protect fishermen following a BBC program that shows cases of modern-day slavery on fishing vessels. Stella ...

Trawler TN-20 ‘Sea Lady’ moored at Portsmouth in a file photo. (Credit: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0/Clive G.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – After a television documentary accused a Scottish fishing company ...

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' ...