A British Columbia couple was found guilty of numerous violations related to the harvest and sale of 87,373 pounds of sea cucumbers, worth around CAD 1.0m

A fisherman from the Canadian province of New Brunswick has been fined CAD 10,000 ($6,950) for catching undersized lobsters

150 Peruvian artisanal squid-fishing boats have been formally registered with the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization, granting them legal access to fish in international waters beyond 200 nautical miles

The Nova Scotia government said adding up to 150 new participants in the eel fishery would make it harder to monitor illegal activities

Officers arrested 169 people this year and seized 396.3 kilograms of elvers, Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans reported

Roughly 30t of mollusks and 6t of glass eels illegally fished in polluted waters have been seized by law enforcement authorities in Portugal, France, and Spain

Negotiations are in progress after Somali pirates raised their ransom demand to $10 million for the release of a Chinese-owned fishing vessel seized in late November

The funding comes from the US Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs and will support three maritime law enforcement agencies in Vietnam

The Dungeness crab season in the US state of Washington is closed until next month at the earliest, but that didn't stop one man from trying to illegally harvest 27 of the coveted crustaceans ahead of the holidays

By Barb Dean-Simmons

The DFO proposal is to redistribute 50% of the current annual elver quota held by established companies to allow 150 new licenses and increased participation by First Nations