A U.S. appeals court has ruled that federal officials must determine if California’s long-line fishing fleet is harming endangered sea turtles before it permits any of these fishermen to continue ...

“We scored a victory for loggerhead sea turtles,” said Todd Steiner, executive director of Turtle Island Restoration Network, after the National Marine Fisheries Services, following a court order, ...

OAKLAND, Calif.— A federal district court has ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to adequately analyze threats to critically endangered leatherback sea turtles when it allowed ...

West Coast fishery managers have narrowly rejected a plan to open the deep water off Oregon and California to longline fishing for swordfish, saying it poses too much of a threat to loggerhead turtles ...

An environmental group sued the Trump administration on Thursday for issuing longline fishing permits known to ensnare endangered sea turtles off California’s coast. In its suit, the Center for ...

MONTEREY — Will sustainably-caught swordfish receive a wave of support from Central Coast fishermen, consumers and restaurateurs? Clean-fishing advocates sure hope so as efforts continue to phase out ...

Commercial fishing for swordfish -- one of the more popular seafoods for consumers -- has been banned by the United States in a large swath of the Pacific Ocean. The move aims not at saving swordfish ...

JOHN NIELSEN reporting: Long-line fishing boats that drag tens of thousands of baited hooks behind them are the reason it's still fairly easy to buy swordfish and tuna at your local grocery store.

A research program that will allow commercial longline boats to fish the Charleston Bump, potentially putting more than 100,000 hooks in the water, angers offshore fishermen who fear the move is a ...

Read more articles from the DCReport here. The Pacific leatherback sea turtle, at up to 2,200 pounds the largest turtle on earth, could disappear from our oceans, yet Trump regulators have OK’d a type ...

Federal fishery regulators voted to uphold an existing ban on longline fisheries, a fishing method that ensnares high numbers of marine mammals and other unintended catch. Last week, the Pacific ...