Over the past 12 years, gillnets set by the Kalispel Tribe in the Pend Oreille system have removed nearly 20,000 northern ...

Gillnets, which hang in the water and trap fish by their gills as they try to back out of the material, are particularly ...

The primary threat facing this shy, small animal is entanglement in fishing gear, particularly gillnets set to catch shrimp, sharks, and other finfish. There has been a recent resurgence in illegal ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The National Marine Fisheries Service agreed today to complete a new assessment of the threat of drift gillnets in California to endangered humpback whales. In the 2020-2021 and ...

The import ban places enormous pressure on the Mexican government to stop the use of deadly gillnets that are entangling, drowning, and killing the vaquita porpoise, whose population has likely ...

However, it faces an existential threat from being caught in large weighted nets, known as gillnets. How 'cocaine of the sea' imperils rare porpoise Rare porpoise dies after rescue effort Dolphins ...

The fishing bill's sponsors said large-mesh drift gillnets, which measure between 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) and 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) long and can extend 200 feet (60.9 meters) below the ...

Penguins also drown each year in commercial gillnets. And a pair of diseases, avian diphtheria and, since 2019, a mysterious and fatal respiratory illness, also infect virtually every chick. Janelle ...

Kiunga's rangers patrol coastal waters, battling poachers, pollution and habitat loss to protect one of the world's most critically endangered sea turtles ...

Meanwhile, the Sea Shepherd ship, Sam Simon, continues mammoth operations to retrieve illegal gillnets, abandoned by the Thunder inside the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine ...

A Mexican fisherman has died after his boat collided with a larger vessel used by US conservationist group Sea Shepherd, reports say. Sea Shepherd said the clash happened after fishing boats ...

Grant and others fear that the sharp increase in fishing pressure in the Kikori delta and the use of gillnets — which indiscriminately capture many types of fish, dolphin and turtle — could ...