Conservation and environmental groups will finally get the results of the first independent study on bycatch involving the ...

Over 100 dead turtles have been discovered along the Gambian coastline since the launch of the turtle bycatch reduction program, according to ongoing monitoring activities conducted in fishing ...

Attracted by bait, sea turtles off the coast of southern Peru often get caught on fishing hooks intended for mahi-mahi.

Pakistan’s Maritime Affairs Minister Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry said this week that the government is eyeing a $200 million boost for the country’s tuna sector, after securing a new fishing quota ...

Study commissioned by lawmakers is silent on whether the state should ban shrimp trawling. But it urges changes in how North ...

A grassroots conservation effort to rescue critically endangered Siamese crocodiles is taking place in a village in Southern Laos. With less than 1,000 surviving in the wild, this was a last refuge ...

Attracted by bait, sea turtles off the coast of southern Peru often get caught on fishing hooks intended for mahi-mahi. Releasing the turtles is complicated as they’re heavy animals, and some ...

Delayed federal funding has pushed the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to cancel travel and shift its October ...

Commercial fishers in New Zealand are required to report captures of protected species such as seabirds, marine turtles, dolphins and many corals, which is then recorded as fishing “bycatch”.

Industrial fishing around the world is having a serious impact on the ocean’s biodiversity, from depleting stocks of the target wild fish species to dangerous levels of bycatch of non-target ...