Recent Illegal Fishing Articles

America's Ocean Cops Are Back From One of the Most Remote Beats on Earth Eight thousand nautical miles. That's roughly the distance from New York City to Tokyo and back again — and it's how far a team of federal enforcement officers from the United States government traveled through some of the mo

Congress Takes Aim at the World's Most Brazen Maritime Cheaters For decades, American fishermen — from the red snapper captains working the Gulf of Mexico to the crab and salmon fleets anchored off Alaska — have watched foreign vessels strip the world's oceans with something close to impunity. The