Seabirds like this sooty shearwater can drown when they become tangled in drift nets and other fishing gear. Roy Lowe, USFWS/Flickr, CC BY My colleagues and I mapped activity in the northeast Pacific ...

An environmental group has settled a lawsuit against the state over fishing practices that caused the deaths of federally protected sea turtles, officials said Thursday. An environmental group has ...

The money comes from an $8.8 billion settlement that BP entered into with the federal government and Gulf Coast states in 2016 to try to remediate some of the extensive damage. The settlement set ...

WWF is working with one the world’s largest manufacturer of fishing hooks to reduce the accidental catch of millions of marine turtles. By producing circle hooks for commercial fishermen, WWF and ...

Ten fishermen from Andhra Pradesh were arrested for illegal fishing within the protected turtle zone in Gahirmatha marine ...

Octaviano Sanchez, who has been a long-line fisherman for nearly thirty years, was the first one in Jurubira who dared participate in the traditional hooks exchange programme and try out the ...

Samuel Crosby, 11, of Sharpsburg loves to fish in O’Hara Township Community Park. “I fish for anything,” the Dorseyville Middle School student said as he reeled in a not-too-happy-to-be-caught ...

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (Border Report) — Dozens of sea turtles have been killed recently off South Texas waters due to gill-netting — a fishing practice that is illegal in U.S. waters of the Gulf ...

Padre Island National Seashore is reminding beachgoers about the dangers of leaving fishing lines at the shores after finding two sea turtles entangled on Friday, June 16. The staff posted about the ...