Our oceans are full of sophisticated, perfect traps: Nets, hooks, fishing lines. Designed to capture animals destined for our dinner tables, they often catch other wildlife too. This accidental ...

LED illuminated nets reduce bycatch of sharks and skates by an incredible 95 percent while maintaining catch rates of target species In a win-win for commercial fisheries and marine wildlife, ...

While fishnets are used to catch fishes for the seafood business. The fishnets also capture marine animals including dolphins, turtles and other sea creatures that form an indistinctive part of the ...

Bycatch—the unintended capture of non‐target species—remains one of the greatest conservation and management challenges in marine fisheries. Across diverse gear types, from longlines and trawls to ...

An international conservation organization working to protect the world’s oceans is out with a report naming the nine dirtiest U.S. fisheries. The report says the equivalent of 1 billion seafood meals ...

Bycatch of seabirds in commercial fishing poses a significant threat to marine avifauna, contributing to population declines of albatrosses, petrels and other vulnerable species worldwide. Mitigation ...

Harbor porpoises have rebounded in a big way off California. Their populations have recovered dramatically since the end of state set-gillnet fisheries that years ago entangled and killed them in the ...

In a win-win for commercial fisheries and marine wildlife, researchers have found that using lighted nets greatly reduced accidental bycatch of sharks, rays, sea turtles, and unwanted finfish.