This year's whale season offered spectacular encounters with these majestic giants as thousands of whales migrated along ...

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

Once used to scoop fish from the sea off the coast of France, recycled fishing nets are finding new life in Ukraine to ...

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 ...

A video circulating widely on Facebook in Ethiopia claims to show an alien creature that was captured in fishing nets after ...

Australian scientists have noticed a rise in the number of whales getting entangled in ropes and fishing lines. Rescuing them ...

Studies have shown that lighted nets can reduce bycatch of sea turtles and sharks, but the idea has faced many hurdles to adoption. The batteries are short lived, expensive to replace and raise ...

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

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

Divers off the coast of Sapientza Island in southern Greece have launched a determined effort to remove "ghost nets" — abandoned fishing gear that silently strangles marine ecosystems.

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