The Clean Water Act (“CWA”) regulates the discharge of certain “pollutants” into waters of the United States (“WOTUS”). Should shrimp trawlers be subject to the regulatory framework under the CWA when ...

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources has asked the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct more studies before implementing a rule requiring turtle ...

EMEA editor Neil Ramsden brings you a roundup of the main stories from the previous week. It was two Canadian news items that topped our most-read charts over the last week or so. First was the news ...

Some 1.3 million t of tropical shrimp are caught annually throughout the world. An approximate estimate1 is that 419,000 trawlers from 65 countries catch shrimp, generating employment for around ...

GEORGETOWN — Timmy Jordan has spent most of his 49 years on the water. No wife. No kids. Just days and nights of dragging coastal waterway bottoms for shrimp, hoping for a good haul. But over the last ...

The Coast Guard searching most of Saturday (Dec. 2) for anyone who might have been lost after a shrimp trawler sank in Long Bay near Buras. Whether anyone had been aboard the vessel was not clear. The ...

ROBERTSPORT, Liberia — The sun was scorching hot in the town of Robertsport as James Dayougar shook debris from his nets, which he’d just returned from fishing with moments earlier. His eyes looked ...

Will the deluge of rain that Tropical Storm Debby dumped on the Lowcountry be another gut punch to the struggling Beaufort-area shrimp industry? Maybe — if the downpour flushes away juvenile shrimp ...