Overfishing is depleting oceans across the globe, but China’s enormous appetite and massive fleet of deep-sea fishing vessels is having an outsize impact.

Warming seas are driving commercial seafood poleward into waters controlled by other countries, setting up international conflicts.

Overfishing is a huge problem in international waters. Some suggest a fishing ban. Others stress a shared shift toward cooperation and long-term thinking.

Under the Seafood Workers Alliance, guest workers organize with others to push back against sexual harassment, poor conditions and other abuses

Foreign trawlers and fishmeal plants are increasingly threatening the livelihood of Senegal's fishermen.

For years, Liberia fought a losing battle against the foreign vessels plundering its coastline. Then a bold new approach sent fines – and arrests – soaring

Ghost Fleet, a gripping new documentary about modern-day slaves in the global fishing industry, follows Patima Tungpuchayakul, a Thai woman who's devoted her life to freeing men from forced labor.

As dwindling stocks sound the death knell for their industry, fishermen along the Mediterranean coast face difficult and often dangerous choices

It’s a good way to avoid taxes and regulations

Impoverished migrant workers in Thailand are sold or lured by false promises and forced to catch and process fish that ends up in global food giant Nestle SA's supply chains.

The gradual disappearance of fish is a death knell for Tombwa, a town of 50,000 in Angola that has little else to offer residents.

The Philippines for decades has supplied the largest share of labor on the world’s cargo ships. Filipino culture is brought aboard, from food to song and sports.

There is so, so much to hate about the cruise industry. Aesthetically, I absolutely despise cruises, with its grotesque buffets, gambling, Americans fearful of traveling without being surrounded by...

Today, the Seafood Working Group (SWG) relaunches its research and advocacy coalition with 23 official members and a new Advisory Body . The SWG is a global coalition of human rights, labor and

Of all the workers dealing with their own private hells during the pandemic, none have it worse than sailors stuck at sea. Ralph Santillan, a merchant seaman from the Philippines, hasn’t had shore...

How were hundreds of infected Ruby Princess passengers allowed to disembark in Sydney and return to homes from Tasmania to Florida?