Blast fishing is widely practiced in the seas around Sri Lanka, with even marine parks and historical shipwrecks not immune to this illegal practice. Authorities say blast fishers work as part of a ...

In what may be a resurgence of an outdated and wasteful custom, people in fishing towns are launching dynamite into the water — to catch fish. As The Guardian reports, this method known as “blast ...

Decades of blast fishing have destroyed much of the coral reefs off Indonesia’s Lora village, reducing fish catches. Increased law enforcement and advocacy by NGOs has helped roll back these ...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government is currently hunting down the perpetrators behind the blast fishing that ...