Ministers join in fishery fight
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Fishermen draft in the Scottish Government to help fight attempts to cut the time that boats can spend at sea.
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Campaigners hoping to create a "no take zone" for fishermen put their proposals to MSPs on the Isle of Arran.
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Plans for a large increase in the numbers of wind turbines around the UK coast have been set out by ministers.
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EU ministers kicked off a traditional  negotiating marathon Tuesday to decide how much to cut fish  catches in 2005 and allow chronically depleted species a chance  to rejuvenate after years of overfishing.
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Ministers from southern Europe met here to thrash out ways of stemming the flow of illegal immigrants arriving on the shores of their countries after perilous sea crossings from Africa.
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A Royal Commission warns species are at risk unless steps are taken to close up to a third of UK fishing grounds.
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Anyone wondering why President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have been talking up hunting and fishing in recent days need look no further than two anti-logging petitions widely circulated by a sportsmen's association in Alaska.
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A total ban on North Sea cod fishing is called for by a group of marine scientists ahead of EU fisheries talks.
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By Steve Connor  Marine biologists have called on the fishing nations of the world to end government subsidies of fishing fleets that are plundering the deep seas and permanently stripping the ocean floor of its unique lifeforms.
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Another minister has become embroiled in claims over the funding of his bid to become the governing Labour Party's deputy leader, days after a Cabinet colleague quit over the same issue.
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A sea battle breaks out between government patrol boats and Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's northern sea.
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By JESSICA VAN SACK  The tragedy of four fallen fishermen has become a rallying cry for politicians hoping to reform marine regulations they say threaten the lives of men at sea with too-restrictive limits on the number of days boats may head out.
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Ministers from countries along the Danube river basin have adopted an action programme aimed at protecting the region from floods.
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Guardians of two of the world's most popular coral reefs joined forces on Thursday to protect their fragile charges from the ravages of water pollution, coral disease and people.
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Pro-hunt campaigners are preparing a legal challenge to the Parliament Act, which was used to force through a ban on hunting with dogs.
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The three main fishing organisations have called on the Taoiseach to restore a dedicated Department of the Marine in the Cabinet reshuffle.
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The Parliamentary Secretariat for Agriculture and Fisheries responded to recent media reports on alleged abuses in the subsidies granted to local farmers to make up for the price differential between CAP ...