Tag: fishing vessels

2017 saw an increasing number of maritime incidents involving fishing and cargo ships in Vietnamese waters, with Gulf of Thailand and Southern sea reporting a more than three times increase in search and rescue calls compared to 2016, according to the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre.

Fishing is one of the most dangerous occupations in the UK. This hazardous job is made difficult by the 100,000 kilometres of cables and pipelines and 4,000 surface and subsea structures that lie off the coast of the UK and northern Europe. These obstacles are dangerous for fishing vessels, as the compromise fishing gear or lead to collisions.

Based on vessel movement patterns, the Global Fishing Watch algorithm identified more than 70,000 commercial fishing vessels, the sizes and engine powers of these vessels, what type of fishing they engaged in, and when and where they fished down to the hour and kilometer.

In an effort to increase global fishing vessel safety, France became the ninth State to ratify IMO’s Cape Town Agreement. The treaty covers various important safety requirements including radiocommunications, life-saving appliances and arrangements, emergency procedures, musters and drills.

On Thursday, a US Coast Guard boarding team issued fishing and safety violations to the 44-foot fishing vessel 'The Long Line', after it was found actively laying and retrieving fishing pots in a prohibited area, 19 miles east of Cape Romain, South Carolina.

Since the commercial Dungeness crab season began on January 15th, USCG Marine Safety Unit Portland investigators have responded to 28 accidents involving commercial fishing vessels, with most recent causalities including loss of propulsion, loss of steering, loss of power, fire, collisions, grounding and personnel injuries.

On 6 March 2017, 'St. Dominick' grounded in Pumicestone Bay, Alaska. The engine room flooded within 10–20 minutes of the grounding, and the four crew abandoned the vessel a short time later. The vessel, valued at $1.1 million, was deemed a constructive total loss.

The Seafood Slavery Risk Tool, originally created with Liberty Asia, Seafish and the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership and now jointly run by the aquarium with Liberty Asia and SFP, produces a rating indicating the likelihood that human trafficking, forced labor and hazardous child labor are occurring on fishing boats in a specific fishery. 

A fishing boat with 21 people onboard has went missing in Russia’s Far eastern Primorye Territory, according to Russia’s Emergencies Ministry. There was a heavy weather at the time, while a weather warning was issued by the regional emergency services ministry.

Ship traffic at the port of Calais, France’s busiest passenger port, was significantly disrupted throughout Thursday by a group of French fishermen's protest at losses inflicted by the practice of electric pulse fishing, a practice responsible for depleting fish numbers in demarcated zones.