After decades of nomadic land-based living, a couple decided to search for a fishing vessel that could take them on their ...

Supertrawlers spent 7,380 hours fishing in UK Marine Protected Areas each year since Brexit An investigation by Greenpeace UK reveals today that giant supertrawlers relentlessly continue to catch fish ...

Downing Street has defended it plan to stop small boat crossings after more than 1,100 migrants travelled across the Channel in the first four days of March. Some 1,168 people have made the ...

Most fishermen fished just offshore from small boats, before “industrialised” fishery appeared in the form of big trawlers with cold rooms that went out to sea for days. Suddenly, any able ...

The Home Office is launching an advertising campaign in Iraq to try to deter people from crossing the English Channel in small boats. Similar campaigns were launched in Albania and Vietnam by the ...

In one chilling video a man who made the dangerous journey says: "The boat was too crowded. People disappeared into the sea." A new campaign seeks to warn would-be asylum seekers of the ...

The design he created for that boat is still used for many trawlers today. Pictured is a home designed by Chris at Port Douglas. Mr Vandyke founded Chris Vandyke Designs in 1989 and went on to ...

Migrants who made the journey to the UK across the English Channel in small boats accounted for 32 per cent of the total in 2024. Meanwhile, France is under pressure to rip up a decades-old agreement ...

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