La Trobe University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Protests on the weekend in Hobart against the Dutch owned super trawler, the FV Margiris, have led to the Australian ...

The Australian Recreational Fishers Party is expected to run Senate candidates at the next federal election. It will be launched today by Stop the Super Trawler ­Alliance member Kevin Harkins and aims ...

If science is excluded from fisheries policy, we’re headed back to the bad old days of overfishing. Greg Bishop Last week, the “super trawler” Abel Tasman left Australia, with far less fanfare than ...

A huge Dutch super-trawler was Tuesday given the go-ahead to fish in Australian waters but with tough conditions to minimise by-catch such as dolphins, seals and sea lions. The 9,500-tonne FV Margiris ...

An investigation has been ordered after the world's second-biggest trawler shed more than 100,000 dead fish into the Atlantic, sparking claims they were dumped deliberately. The spill from the FV ...

Australia's hopes of blocking a controversial super-trawler from fishing in its waters looked uncertain with the opposition speaking out against the move and a key independent lawmaker expressing ...

Australia’s Environment Minister, Tony Burke, signed a two-year ban on any super trawler fishing in the country’s southern waters on Monday. This action comes just two months after Burke blocked the 9 ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.K., super trawlers have increased their activities in protected waters. According to a report released by Greenpeace, the massive fishing vessels have ...

THE controversial super trawler Margiris has been registered in Queensland and will fish as far north as Bundaberg, angering environmentalists who claim the ship can strip an entire ecosystem. The ...