Charities say the unintended bycatch is a particular problem in prawn trawl fishery due to the small mesh size of the nets. The fisherman, who took the video and asked not to be named, said it did ...

In a major win for ocean conservation and ethical seafood sourcing, the U.S. government has agreed to halt seafood imports linked to deadly bycatch that harms whales, dolphins, and other marine life.

According to the Seabird Tracking Database, "Research has provided estimates of global bycatch in gillnet and longline fisheries: 400,000 and 160,000 seabirds per year, respectively." It's a major ...

Protections established by Point Blue’s biologists supported a similar rebound of common murres, which faced threats due to egg harvesting, oil spills and gillnet bycatch and now have reached a ...

A view of the deck of a docked factory trawler, taken from above. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, which manages federal fisheries off Alaska’s coast, wrapped up its February ...

A marine animal caught unintentionally by commercial fishing gear is known as bycatch. Dolphins trapped in nets targeting tuna, sea turtles swept up in shrimp trawls and terrapins caught in crab ...

A newly tagged 9-foot great white shark popped up close to a South Florida beach over the weekend. The satellite tag attached to the shark's dorsal fin by OCEARCH researchers surfaced and sent a ping ...

announced that legislation that will lead to the phase out of drift gillnet usage in federal waters will be signed into law as part of a 2023 omnibus government funding bill. The bill, Driftnet ...