James Martin on his fishing exports nightmare: ‘I’m struggling to get scallops’

“If you combine that with everything that fires up. The answer is I cannot wait to put the chef’s jacket, I cannot wait to get back into the kitchen. “It was the thing I fell in love with when I was eight years old and I cannot wait to be doing it again.” “Well you’ve […]

Autonomous drones will help stop illegal fishing in Africa

Drones aren’t just cracking down on land-based poaching in Africa — ATLAN Space is launching a pilot that will use autonomous drones to report illegal fishing in the Seychelles islands. The fliers will use computer vision to identify both the nature of boats in protected waters as well as their authorization. If they detect illegal […]

WATCH: Terrified kayakers chased by great white shark while fishing in Australia

The two men were attempting to fish when one of them spotted the large beast. Ken Gerke, one of the kayakers, told his friend David Barwise: “It’s chasing me. In the video, he can be heard saying: “I can hear him coming. “Like I’m paddling, and I can hear him thumping away behind me.” In […]

3 bodies found in capsized fishing boat off S. Korean coast – Yonhap

The South Korean Coast Guard recovered the bodies of three crewmen from a capsized fishing boat thought to originate from China, Yonhap news agency reported. The rescue operation located the 12-meter vessel near Baengnyeong Island, south of the western sea border on Saturday, discovering the bodies after moving the boat to shallow waters. “Considering the […]

The UN is seriously considering an international treaty that would limit fishing to protect the high seas

REUTERS/Climate change/Handout UN member states will start formal talks that are expected to deliver a treaty for the protection of the high seas in 2020.  At least 141 of the 193 members will participate.  The treaty would set conservation areas and dictate fishing and catch quotas.  After more than a decade of discussion in the […]

South Korea had to fire 249 warning shots at a group of reinforced, swarming Chinese fishing ships

US Coast Guard South Korea’s coast guard fired 249 warning shots at a group of Chinese fishing boats “swarming around” one of its patrol boats. South Korea’s coast guard regularly has to chase off Chinese boats suspected of illegal fishing, and sometimes it gets violent. This time 44 reinforced Chinese fishing boats rushed a patrol […]

Gove’s armada: UK fishing stocks to be protected from EU trawlers post-Brexit

Published time: 18 Dec, 2017 08:34 British fishing stocks will be guarded from EU nations’ trawlers by a post-Brexit armada. Environment Secretary Michael Gove will get his own navy to prevent French, Spanish and other boats from fishing illegally in UK waters. Under a new ship-building program, £350 million ($ 467 million) is being spent […]

A fishing deal with China could be the reason North Korean ‘ghost ships’ are flooding Japan

Kyodo via Reuters Dozens of boats containing dead bodies from North Korea have washed up on Japan’s west coast recently. Experts say this could be due to a fishing deal between North Korea and China. The phenomenon also reveals the country’s desperate need for fish and foreign currency. A fishing deal between North Korea and […]

Facebook Spaces gets multiplayer fishing with Bait! Arctic Open

When Bait! from Resolution Games first launched on Gear VR it introduced several visually pleasing vistas at which players could cast their line for some recreational fishing. With a mixture of free-to-play design and some light microtransactions, it quickly soared on the platform and became one of the most-downloaded mobile VR experiences available. Now today Bait! is […]

‘Bait!’ brings an ice fishing expedition to Facebook’s social VR

Facebook launched its social VR Spaces beta last April, finally showing us a compelling experience that helped put the social media company’s acquisition of Oculus in the first place. Recently, Oculus showed off a little ice fishing game from casual game studio Resolution Games at the Oculus Connect 4 conference. Now, the game — dubbed […]