Thousands of at-risk manta and devil rays become accidental bycatch in tuna fishing nets every year. A simple sorting grid could help save them.

Washington and Oregon officials this week adopted commercial salmon fishing seasons in late August and September for six beach seiners and four purse seiners in selected portions of the lower Columbia ...

Workers sandblast a fishing vessel at the Laaiplek harbour near Velddrif on the Cape West Coast. Boats are undergoing ...

The total size of fishing nets lost or discarded in the ocean every single year is equal to the size of South Carolina, scientists have estimated. Designed to be durable and long-lasting, lost or ...

Increasing catch levels of yellowfin tuna and the lack of any effective control of fishing effort by management: WWF believes that the Echebastar Indian Ocean purse-seine tuna fishery cannot be yet ...

Mayiladuthurai: Demanding to ban the use of prohibited purse seine nets, thousands of fisherfolk from Mayiladuthurai district held a protest in the sea with black flags on their boats on Tuesday. They ...

Facing a second year of restricted fishing, some setnetters on the east side of Cook Inlet, in the US state of Alaska, are experimenting with purse seine gear as a workaround to salvage their season ...

A leading marine conservationist is strongly opposed to a proposal to amend Section 69 of the Fisheries Act to allow seine nets with mesh sizes smaller than 2.5 centimetres to be used at night in ...