This month, Indonesia and Australia signed an agreement on combatting illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. This is not only a significant step for both cou ..
Who is Captain Hook? He plays an important part in this episode and is a very remarkable man. He is Howard W. Pollock, who died in 2011 at age 90, and has had a career mo ..
CITES (an International Convention/UN Enforcer) is now considering a proposal to list all 19 shark species of the family Carcharhinidae thereby placing all sharks under t ..
This week, Baird Maritime looks at an interesting lineup of reviewed vessels featuring a selection of marine propulsion types, from conventional diesel engines to batteri ..
Fish farming vessels dominate this week’s featured vessels for review. Two of the vessels are aquaculture support workboats for operators in Scotland while one is a ..
We live in a new maritime environment. Once maritime cooperation could be equated with putting down pirates. But Captain John Silver no longer sails the Spanish Main; Hen ..
Haddock larvae swam more slowly after being exposed in the laboratory to magnetic fields similar to those created by undersea cables connecting offshore wind farms, Norwa ..
When I was a young boy, I had a big book of ships that included cut-away images of some of the vessels. The British Atlantic passenger ship Queen Mary was one. I was fasc ..
In 1985, I was scuba diving In Kona, Hawaii with retired US Navy Commander Jerry Saber and his brother Rick Saber, a United Airlines pilot, when we heard about this dive ..
About Us
Fishing and its up-and-coming counterpart aquaculture are critical components of the world’s food supply.
Fishing Boat World, launched in 1989, is there to catch all the catching, processing, regulation and enforcement developments affecting this unique industry.
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