Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red snapper seized off Texas by Coast Guard. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard The U.S. Coast Guard this week seized a fishing boat with 200 ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard said they detained 11 fishermen and seized illegally caught fish and sharks in federal waters off southern Texas on Thursday. The Coast Guard Station South ...

Red snapper are plentiful in the Gulf of Mexico, fishers and researcher Bob Shipp say. (NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune archives) Bob Shipp says the red snapper stocks in the Gulf of Mexico are ...

Backers of red snapper legislation advancing in the United States Senate say it could protect the United States market from illegal Mexican fishing – though its approach relies on technology that has ...

It's the hidden U.S.-Mexico border war. For years, Mexican fisherman have crossed into U.S. waters to illegally catch high-priced red snapper. It has become a multimillion-dollar black market, a ...

The US Department of the Treasury has identified members of Mexico's Gulf Cartel as key players in illegal fishing operations targeting red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. The fish, abundant in US ...

Ten Republican senators have urged the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to target illegal fishing in U.S. waters, which they say undermines American fishers and funds Mexican ...

I would like to thank Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Charlie Melancon for withdrawing the department’s support of a bill that proposes to transfer ...

One of the great joys of living in Florida is our access to fresh seafood — shrimp, scallops, grouper, you name it. I grilled ...