Fishing

IDF troops borrowing nets from fishermen to defend against Hezbollah drone threat - report

IDF troops in southern Lebanon reportedly asked Galilee fishermen for fishing nets to help defend against Hezbollah’s drone threat.

MAY 25, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israeli fishermen fish in the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee near Kibbutz Ein Gev on September 23 2016.

Japan Coast Guard ships are docked at a port in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, January 13, 2026.

Japan seizes Chinese fishing boat, arrests skipper for fleeing inspection

The captain, a 47-year-old Chinese national, is accused of ignoring orders to stop for an on-board inspection on Thursday in waters off southwest Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan's fisheries agency said.

FEBRUARY 13, 2026|ByREUTERS

A Taiwan Coast Guard vessel travels near a China Coast Guard vessel as China conducts military drills around Taiwan, in this handout image provided December 30, 2025.

China massed fishing fleets in East China Sea in apparent Taiwan blockade test

Ship-tracking data shows that by January 11, about 1,400 Chinese fishing vessels had gathered into a tightly organized rectangular formation stretching roughly 200 miles.

JANUARY 21, 2026|ByTHE MEDIA LINE STAFF

A dead garfish lies in a marsh near Venice, Louisiana May 20, 2010. For nearly a month, roughly 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons/795,000 liters) of oil per day have been gushing from BP's broken Deepwater oil well situated in the Gulf of Mexico, in what could be named the worst oil spill in U.S. histo

Cuban scientists race against time to save fish as old as the dinosaurs

The garfish - long, slender, its snout filled with sharp teeth- is considered “critically endangered," earning it a spot on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list.

NOVEMBER 24, 2025|ByREUTERS

Colby Blackwell on how he completed the Billfish Grand Slam

APRIL 11, 2021ByDN MEDIA NETWORK

Hamas claims 3 Gaza fishermen killed by explosive Israeli quadcopter

The Gazan Interior Ministry released an animated video simulating the incident.

MARCH 11, 2021ByTZVI JOFFRE

Palestinian fishermen riding a boat cast their net as birds fly off the coast of Gaza City February 19, 2020

Doctors extract fishhook from fisherman's eye and manage to save it

Some two days after the surgery, the fisherman reportedly felt better and even started seeing shadows and light in the injured eye.

FEBRUARY 24, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

The team fo dcotors and medical staff who saved the fisherman's eye.

Meet Franklin Seeber, leading YouTube star and content creator

FEBRUARY 8, 2021ByDN MEDIA NETWORK

Spearfishing in Gaza, a living improvised under the sea

Gaza has around 250 men who fish with spears and some 4,000 who use boats and nets, among a population of two million.

OCTOBER 13, 2020ByREUTERS

Palestinian spear-fisherman Ashraf Al-Amoudi displays fish on a beach in the southern Gaza Strip, October 8, 2020.

Rare all-white tope shark caught in the UK for the first time

While finding a tope shark is amazing enough, as they are considered a critically endangered species, its made all the rarer for its lack of pigmentation, a rare sight on any animal.

OCTOBER 7, 2020ByAARON REICH