Greece

Two Turkish Coast Guard vessels harassed a Greek fishing boat off the island of Oinousses, near Chios in the eastern Aegean in the most recent incident of its kind, apparently occurring on Thursday morning. According to the local web site...

A video showing two Turkish Coast Guard vessels harassing a Greek fishing boat near the Greek islet of Imia was released by the Greek television station Open on Wednesday evening, showing only one of the hundreds of similar incidents...

Two Cretan fishermen managed to save an 18-year old woman who was fighting to survive for more than twelve hours in the sea in Greece's Lasithi, on Crete. Media reports suggest that the unfortunate woman tried to pick up her...

A group of Greek fishermen caught a giant tuna fish, the biggest in the Aegean in recent years, and proudly hung it from the mast of their boat at the port of Naxos. According to Naxospress.gr, the fishermen are the famous...

Five Egyptian fishermen on a Cypriot boat were remanded to custody for three days on Saturday by a ‘court’ in Northern Cyprus, following their arrest on Friday, 7.5 nautical miles away from Kormakitis. According to reports in the north, the...

Dozens of Greek fishermen from the east Aegean islands have sent a legal notice to the government complaining of continuous provocations by their Turkish counterparts. The notice, signed by 36 fishermen, says that their counterparts infringe in Greek waters and...

Allegations of harassment at sea of Greek fishermen by Turkish boats and the country's coast guard continued on Friday. It follows reports earlier this week of shots being fired at Greek fishermen off the coast of Leros. Two Greek seamen, owners...

Greek fishermen have reported that they were fired upon by Turkish fishing boats near Kalapodi islet, 300 meters off the coast of Leros island. Two Greek seamen, owners of fishing boats, spoke to Alpha television saying that the Turkish boats...

    A mysterious fishy visitor to Greek waters has left locals in the Ionian island of Zakynthos in a panic. Two fishermen recently shared footage of a chance encounter with an enormous ocean sunfish, an animal usually unknown in Greek waters as...

Two Greek fishermen caught more than they bargained for this week, with an epic offshore battle eventually netting a monstrous sea bass. The pair -- caught on video broadcast by Cyclades24.gr -- netted the giant fish off Syros island on...

Three fishermen were found dead in the rocky area of Prasonisi this morning after an intense search for them took place overnight. The three men had made a distress call from their cell phones to relatives back on the shores...

Two fishermen of Greece's Lesvos island, who rescued hundreds of refugees in 2015 and 2016, will be granted prize money by the co-winners of the "Olof Palme Prize". The prize money will be used to repair the fishermen's boats that were destroyed in the...

According to a group of Turkish fishermen, the Greek Coast Guard allegedly tried to sink a boat carrying Syrian immigrants on Thursday, Hürriyet daily reported. The boat, trying to cross into Greek waters, started its journey from the coast of...

Christian Stemper is a famous Austrian photographer, who has studied the life of fishermen of Paros -- a profession that is getting lost with time -- for five years. "Wolves of the sea" isn't the friendliest of nicknames, but the weather-beaten fishermen...

Until today, Greek fishermen used to shout early in the morning what they had caught during the night: Sardines, shrimps and sometimes sepia! But now, fishermen of Evia have something extra to shout about for their customers-- they caught...