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Oh, it is all starting to happen now. The commercial fleet has made the transition from lobster to fin fish and even the charter industry is starting to get a bit of work, so the results are starting to stack up. This means that the offshore waters a...

Well, you were told. Every year the procrastinators leave everything to the last minute, with the worst of these waiting for the family to get on their case just before May 24. The upshot of this is that most of the amateurs miss out on the spring wa...

Okay, time to get serious. Lobster season is over, the traps all stowed away until September and the entire fleet is now looking to the blue water for a summer’s worth of profit, sport or a combination of the two. The weather earlier in the week left...

Despite some calm days this past week, the fishing effort has been pretty limited. Lobster gear seems to be the number one priority and a few boats have put in some time drifting for bottom fish. The handful of wahoo and tuna that have been caught a...

Sea cucumbers may seem an unlikely source of revenue. But behind the scenes in a small facility on Coney Island, aquaculture experts are investigating the potential of farming this valuable and vital marine species. The ground-breaking work could hel...

Information about the nutrient value and mercury concentrations in fish is now available via a mobile phone application. BeneFISHiary targets all residents wanting to know more about local and imported species, but it is particularly aimed at empowe...

Jeanne Atherden, the Minister of Environment, has said that her department would consider putting extra regulations on recreational fishing in Bermuda. Ms Atherden was speaking in response to calls from commercial fishermen who fear their livelihoods...

Commercial fishermen are calling for tougher regulations on recreational fishing as they battle to protect their livelihoods. Those who fish for a living say they are struggling to make ends meet — often forced to take a second job — while they are b...

Illegal fishing has spiked as families have been hit by Bermuda’s struggling economy, according to government’s head fisheries warden. Fishermen are calling for better enforcement of the fishing laws — and the public are urged to act as witnesses — a...

Toxins from fossil fuels are causing a worrying number of deformities in the Island’s pond life according to recent research. A study by the Bermuda Amphibian Project, led by principal investigator Jamie Bacon, found deformities in a quarter of all t...

A drop of nearly 20 percent in the commercial spiny lobster market this season signals an end to the bountiful harvests of years gone by, according to monitoring statistics by the Department of Environmental Protection. But more striking was the num...