A new fishing method that uses lights to drive away fish promises to reduce wasteful bycatch and increase the efficiency of prawn fishing. The Australian Maritime College has been attaching lights to prawn nets, which the fish are repelled by. The technique reduced bycatch by 30 percent and increases the ... 
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Moon jellyfish swimming in the moonlightFrom Spain to New York, to Australia, Japan and Hawaii, jellyfish are becoming more numerous and more widespread, and they are showing up in places where they have rarely been seen before, scientists say. The explosion of jellyfish populations, scientists say, reflects a combination of severe overfishing of natural predators, ...
The Aquapod®, a mobile fish cage, was successfully tested recently. The unique cage could help solve the problem of fish farming in areas too deep for conventionally anchored fish cages.
In conventional fish farming, cages are moved to help keep the fish free of disease. Stout towboats haul the enormous ...
The Protector unmanned surface vehicle (USV) was developed by the Rafeal, a former subdivision of the Israeli Defence ministry. The boat is a response to emerging terrorist threats against maritime assets such as the USS Cole bombing. It ...
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