Arizona State University’s Senko Lab is studying ways to make fishing gear less harmful to sea turtles, sharks, and other threatened species.

Discarded nets, lines and traps are a hazard to marine life and ecosystems around the world, but pioneering programs are ...

Researchers at Arizona State University collaborated with coastal gillnet fishers to develop solar-powered, net-illuminating ...

Solar-powered lights on fishing nets are cutting sea turtle bycatch by 63%—a simple fix that helps both ocean life and ...

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 ...

Northern Israeli diver, who rescued two sea turtles injured by abandoned fishing line this year, reports uptick in fishing ...

To us she’s a supermodel, but to sea turtles she’s a superhero. Gisele Bündchen saved a sea turtle’s life after finding it had been washed ashore upside down while trapped inside a fishing net. The ...

Ending years of controversy and debate, Gov. Jerry Brown late Thursday signed a new law phasing out the use of giant ocean fishing nets used to catch swordfish, but blamed for accidentally killing sea ...

The fish is stored in large blue tubs filled with salt. After 21 days, the filets are cured and ready to be sorted according ...

Conservationists and students were cheering as three rescued sea turtles made their way back into the ocean at a private ...