As night falls, a group of fishermen set sail off the coast of northern Taiwan, where they prepare to catch sardines with a traditional method: fire. Once they are at sea, a fisherman lights fire on a ...

Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — 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 ...

Taiwan has the world’s highest concentration of venues for shrimp fishing, a.k.a. prawn fishing. There are places where you can catch and eat prawns; businesses that combine shrimp fishing with ...

Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear is a significant source of marine litter with about 640,000 metric tons lost or dumped in the ocean each year. This "ghost" fishing gear is one of ...

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, ...

Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — The Chinese coast guard detained a Taiwanese fishing vessel in waters off China’s southeast coast on Tuesday night, in the latest flare-up of tensions around a group of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Taipei, Taiwan — A towering arch bridge over a bay in eastern Taiwan collapsed Tuesday, sending an oil tanker truck falling onto boats in the water below. An air force helicopter, fishing vessels and ...

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 ...