South Korean giant Dongwon Industries has invested KRW 100 billion ($72.8 million) to build two new 2,000--metric-ton purse seiners for its tuna operations.

GENEVA, Switzerland (25 October 2018) – WWF is most concerned that the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of the Echebastar Indian Ocean skipjack tuna purse seine fishery has been granted ...

“The study reaffirms what decades of science have consistently shown: Louisiana’s Gulf menhaden fishery is sustainable, ...

Facing a second year of restricted fishing, some setnetters on the east side of Cook Inlet, in the US state of Alaska, are experimenting with purse seine gear as a workaround to salvage their season ...

In March 2015, the MSC published a report recommending certification of some of the tuna caught by the Echebastar Indian Ocean Purse Seine Skipjack, Yellowfin and Bigeye Tuna fishery. The ...

Canadian fisherman John Lenic has been running one in his 1978-built steel purse seiner Ocean Marauder. Still running on the original engine he swears by it. Sponsored Content ...

Before she became a minesweeper, the U.S.S. Magpie worked in the California fishing fleet as a dragger or purse seiner, and she was known as the City of San Pedro. In 1936 the Navy bought her and ...