Half-man, half-fish: The surreal lives of Madagascar’s nomadic fishermen

The culture is fatalistic. This is not to deny the existence of ambition; there’s always the shipbuilding entrepreneur or fisherman who sends his children to an expensive school in Tulear. But focusing too much on the future implies an ability to change one’s circumstances by altering the natural course of events. The Vezo, after centuries […]

‘It looks like it will catch us’: Russian fishermen film stunning whirlwind (and it did catch them)

They got their viral video, but maybe these Russian fishermen should have moved away a bit faster. “A whirlwind. A Twister. 500 meters from us. Very beautiful. It’s huge,” said Pavel Chernyavsky, as he narrates his Instagram video, geolocated off the coast of Gelendzhik in the Black Sea. “Maybe it will catch up with us,” […]

Inside the insane, dangerous lives of Alaskan crab fishermen who work 20-hour days in a ‘constant barrage of storms’

Corey Arnold/Fish-Work: Bering Sea Being a crab fishermen on Alaska’s Bering Sea is a very dangerous job with back-breaking labor and 20-hour work days. In 2002, photographer Corey Arnold decided to give it a try. He ended up doing it for nearly a decade and brought his camera along for the many weeks at sea. […]

WATCH: Shocking moment fishermen DIVE overboard to save their lives before crash

A video has emerged showing a boat crashing into a smaller fishing vessel – and the people onboard having to jump off to save their lives.  Footage, reportedly shot on action cameras called GoPros, has surfaced online.  The trio fishing can be seen casting lines into the water and laughing with one another as the […]

Eight men arrived on Japan’s shores claiming they’re North Korean fishermen whose boat went adrift

Japanese police found eight men on their shores who claim to be North Korean fishermen. The men don’t appear to be defectors, but rather their boat ran into trouble and went adrift. Last week, the Japan Coast Guard rescued three North Korean men on a capsized boat in the Sea of Japan, before they returned home […]

Ecuador jails Chinese fishermen caught with 6,600 endangered, near-extinct sharks

Published time: 30 Aug, 2017 03:49 A group of 20 Chinese fisherman has been jailed for between one and three years for illegally fishing endangered species of shark in the protected waters off the Galapagos Islands. “After the enormous indignation we felt, this will definitely compensate for the damage caused because a historic precedent has […]

Fishbrain is a social network for fishermen, but will it hook anyone?

In an age of pervasive digital entrepreneurism, there’s a social network for practically every subculture under the sun. Take Codias, for example — it’s a network for political conservatives. There’s Sermo, a forum for doctors. And HoffSpace is an internet fan club dedicated to television star David HasselHoff. But one of the fastest-growing niche networks has nothing […]