The sinking of a packed migrant boat off the coast of Greece may be “the worst tragedy ever” in the Mediterranean sea ... a new modus operandi with these fishing boats leaving from the ...

The Mediterranean's deadliest shipwreck in living memory occurred on April 18, 2015, when an overcrowded fishing boat collided off Libya with a freighter trying to come to its rescue. Only 28 ...

The sinking of a dangerously overcrowded fishing boat carrying hundreds of migrants ... spotlight on the perilous voyage across the Mediterranean Sea that thousands of migrants undertake each ...

European border agency Frontex says the central Mediterranean is the ... devices should they capsize. Types of boats include rubber rafts and fishing vessels - on the Tunisian route, metal ...

Despite these risks, metal boats already accounted for 77% of Mediterranean crossings in ... like traditional fishing boats. In the El-Amra camp, an Ivorian migrant who spent several months ...

As industrial boats prepare to set sail on Saturday for the annual Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing season on the Mediterranean Sea, WWF is urging all fishing countries to keep the fishery closed this ...

and the patrol boat would have been unable to tow the fishing boat. “Regretfully there was movement of people, a shift in weight probably caused by panic and the boat capsized. As soon as we got ...