At around 5:30 a.m., after the tide starts to recede, Zulkifli Dalimunthe rushes to the shore a stone’s throw from his house, ...
Australian Ocean King Prawn's 11 trawlers work a sandy sea bed where there is no reef or seagrass, 120 kilometres off the coast of Gladstone. Compulsory satellite tracking and turtle excluder ...
Prawn trawlers catch 10-20kg (22-44lb) of marine species in the tropics to obtain just 1kg (2.2lb) of prawns. But, according to the EJF, this "bycatch" is usually discarded, dead or dying ...
The general trawl zone is being closed to commercial shrimp fishing — the ... where most of the work is done by hand, to 80-foot-long trawlers with heavy mechanical equipment handing the nets.