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A fisherman has been awarded a $500 certificate for Masters from the government as a reward for returning tags to help the red hind research tagging programme. The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources awar...

Divers have welcomed the latest Government guidelines governing recreational lobster fishing in Bermuda. Last week Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, announced that a maximum of 500 recreational fishing licences would be granted in the 2017-...

Government has capped the number of recreational lobster divers at 500 for the 2017-18 season. The limit was announced this morning in a statement by Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, who said the cap was “approximately the same number of d...

The Ministry of Home Affairs has announced amendments to the Fisheries Order to open fishing on the red hind grounds from today. The ministry stressed that the extended closure areas around the black grouper grounds remain closed until December 1. Th...

A limit drastically curtailing lobster fishing licences just weeks before the season resumes has taken the community by surprise. “It’s like a secret edict,” said longstanding fisherman Ted Gauntlett, about restrictions that would bar hundreds from a...

Livingston McKenzie tirelessly fishes at his favourite spot just outside the mouth of Devonshire Bay and his patience paid off just before Cup Match with a prize catch: a rockfish weighing more than 100lbs. Most visitors to the South Shore inlet pref...

The surest way to secure Bermuda’s reef fishing industry is to impose further restrictions and a ban on the sale of certain species according to lifelong fisherman Alan Card. Members of Bermuda’s fishing communities have weighed in on a report rele...

Predatory fish once common in our waters including groupers and snappers are at “critically low numbers”, causing a threat to Bermuda’s coral reefs, according to a new report. Scientists Thaddeus and Jessie Murdoch released the report through the Be...

Fishing in Seasonally Protected Areas, also known as “Hind Grounds” and “Grouper Grounds”, will be prohibited from April 15 to protect spawning red hinds, the Ministry of Environment has announced. According to a statement, the decision to bring the ...

A satellite study of the island’s Exclusive Economic Zone has revealed little evidence of illegal fishing, according to the Ministry of the Environment. A statement by the ministry said that they had recently received a preliminary analysis of three ...

Third generation fisherman David Soares landed the biggest tuna caught in Bermuda’s waters on Saturday morning and he did so single-handedly in 15 minutes flat. The Bermudian, who said he has had it confirmed by the fisheries department that the 100...

Ciguatera, an elusive food poisoning carried by fish, has been confirmed in 16 cases from November 22 to December 20, according to the Ministry of Health and Seniors. A further three people fell ill with ciguatera in January 2016 by eating portions o...