NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan – Commercial fishing boat owners in Taiwan, one of the world's biggest seafood exporters, face strict rules and potential fines under a new law aimed at preventing overfishing ...

Taiwan's coast guard says Chinese officials detained a Taiwanese fishing boat and took it to a Chinese port on Tuesday. China's coast guard said the fishing boat violated a summer ban on fishing and ...

Taiwan Coast Guard Administration Deputy Director-General Hsieh Ching-chin told reporters in Taipei that China should explain why it had seized the boat, and pointed out that in previous cases, ...

“I prayed to God that I would survive.” Taiwanese fishing fleet crew members describe illegal dolphin catching, shark finning, and physical and verbal abuse. Taiwan’s distant-water fishing fleet is ...

Silwanus Tangkotta was working aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat in the remote Pacific last year, when a heavy wave slammed a rolling metal door onto his hand, crushing his middle and ring fingers. The ...

(Bloomberg) -- China detained a Taiwanese fishing boat and its crew, a move that risks worsening tensions with the island’s new president. The vessel was stopped by the Chinese Coast Guard on Tuesday ...

Taiwan said the Chinese coast guard boarded a Taiwanese fishing boat Tuesday before steering it to a port in mainland China, and demanded that Beijing release the vessel. The Dajinman 88 was ...

A longstanding territorial dispute has led to sharp tensions between Taiwan and Japan after Japanese coast guard vessels harassed Taiwanese fishing boats in disputed waters last month. The waters ...

Fishermen on board a boat docked at Sinda Fishing Port prepare to unload their catch. Credit: Image via Shi Yali / Shutterstock.com The Taiwanese fleet of longline tuna vessels is the largest in the ...

Taiwan sends Coast Guard and military vessels to enforce its right to fish in what Japan claims as its EEZ. As if Asia didn’t have enough maritime disputes, add one more to the list. Taiwan and Japan ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Chinese officials boarded and then seized a Taiwanese fishing boat operating near China's coast close to a Taiwan-controlled island late Tuesday and took it to a Chinese port, Taiwan ...