NINGBO, China, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Seven people were reported missing Wednesday after their fishing boat collided with a freighter in the sea off east China's Zhejiang Province, police said.
TILLAMOOK, Ore., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard says it has suspended the search for two fishermen thrown into the Pacific when their boat capsized off the Oregon coast.
KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A man rescued after spending 22 days stranded on an uninhabited Bahamas island is a suspected illegal immigrant smuggler, U.S. authorities say.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard says it recently spent half the night fishing bales of marijuana from the Pacific off the Southern California coast.
SHELBURNE, Nova Scotia, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Fire destroyed an impounded and dry-docked Canadian lobster fishing boat suspected by federal officials of being used for poaching off Nova Scotia, police said.
KISMANYA, Somalia, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Authorities say Somali pirates armed with grenade launchers hijacked a Chinese fishing boat and are holding the 24 crew members hostage.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A crewman from another boat testified that one of two life rafts from a fishing boat that sank off Alaska was only partly inflated when it was found.
BURNHAM-ON-SEA, England, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- An inexperienced British sailor had to be rescued twice by the Coast Guard in three days and then had his boat searched for explosives.
JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Four of the 11 crewmen of a fishing boat lost for 15 hours were in good condition after being rescued near the Aleutian Islands, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard said it recovered an empty survival suit from a fishing boat reported missing off Alaska with 11 people aboard.
DARWIN, Australia, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- An Australian man is recovering after being bitten by a reef shark with giant hook in its mouth.
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Eleven fishermen from a Chinese boat are to be prosecuted in the death of a South Korean coast guard inspector, Korean authorities say.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Coast Guard officers said they were called to stop a boat from spinning in circles at Virginia Beach, Va., after its two occupants fell out of the craft.
EAST CHICAGO, Ind., Aug. 15 (UPI) -- A 4-year-old boy was left stranded on a speeding fishing boat in East Chicago, Ind., after his parents were thrown overboard, police say.
SAN DIEGO, July 27 (UPI) -- U.S. officials say they found a half ton of marijuana on a Mexican fishing boat they commandeered off the coast of southern California.
