The once vibrant wooden trawler industry in Bangladesh is losing its sheen as the use of these vessels has gradually declined over the years, according to manufacturers. More than 2,000 wooden ...

The Angelina is a 50-foot wooden trawler built in the early 1940s by Paul “Sugar” Lindwall. His son Chuck Lindwall bought the old vessel in 2003. Chuck Lindwall doesn’t fit the old saying -- the two ...

Worms opened the wooden hull and in washed the green water and silver minnows. The fishermen spoke less of salvaging the 63-foot trawler left in the harbor of West Ocean City. The New Hope slouched to ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 3 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan navy Monday reported finding a wooden trawler that had been adrift 12 days in the Bay of Bengal, with 71 survivors and 20 dead aboard. The people ...

The government has cut sailing days for ice-dependent wooden trawlers by half from previous 15 days per trip to ensure quality of fish caught from the Bay of Bengal. The decision drew mixed reactions ...

Shahab Uddin, 20, a Rohingya refugee poses for a picture in the transit camp in southern Bangladesh after surviving two months at sea on a wooden trawler, in Cox's Bazar ...

Sri Lanka's Navy has rescued 71 Burmese and Bangladeshi people from a boat adrift in the Bay of Bengal. The wooden trawler started drifting two weeks ago when it ran into engine trouble. Twenty people ...

The Angelina is a 50-foot wooden trawler built in the early 1940s by Paul “Sugar” Lindwall. His son Chuck Lindwall bought the old vessel in 2003. FOR THE RECORD An article in Friday’s Daily Pilot, ...