On many nights at sea off this Pacific port, Aaron Medina drops bombs that cause dozens of fish to soar into the air. Like a drug dealer advertising his goods, the 23-year-old fisherman rubbernecks to ...

Blast fishing — the act of using explosives underwater to kill entire schools of fish with shock waves — has been a widespread problem in the Philippines for decades. Although a few fishermen get rich ...

Blast fishing — the act of using explosives underwater to kill entire schools of fish with shock waves — has been a widespread problem in the Philippines for decades. Although a few fishermen get rich ...

Blast fishing has taken a toll on both the fishermen and marine life of El Salvador’s Jiquilisco Bay Biosphere Reserve. Some residents have lost limbs or eyes or suffered bad burns. And populations of ...

CORINTO – Aaron Medina was 12 years old when he tossed his first bomb. Now 22, Medina, the only of three siblings who didn’t emigrate to find work abroad, lives a life like someone in a warzone: He’s ...

Many authorities are blaming the continued practice of using dynamite and bottle bombs made with kerosene and fertilizer, to catch fish on a lack of government follow through on existing laws or a ...

A team of dolphins and whales researchers in Tanzania unintentionally discovered the rampant blast fishing practices in the African country. Blast fishing, also called dynamite fishing, uses ...

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 ...

CINEGRAPHIX STUDIOS/CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Brody Levin (left) is all smiles for his junior angler division winning 16.8-pound bonito caught during the Bonito Blast while fishing with friends (left to right ...