Japan has indicted the Chinese fishing trawler captain who sparked an international incident in 2010 when he rammed two Japanese naval craft near a disputed island chain in the East China Sea. The formal indictment, announced Thursday, came after an independent inquest panel overturned a decision by prosecutors to drop charges against the captain . […]
Fishing Nations Agree to Protect Rare Shark
Posted November 19th, 2011 at 7:05 pm (UTC-5)
Countries involved in bluefin tuna fishing have agreed to make more effort to protect a rare species of shark and curtail illegal fishing. Delegates of the 48-nation International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas Conference meeting Saturday in Istanbul decided on a measure mandating that silky sharks accidentally caught in fishing gear must be […]
