CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Texas Game Wardens on patrol in the Gulf of Mexico Monday discovered six miles of illegal long-line fishing gear that had hooked several sharks of various species. Long-line ...

A team of researchers and fishermen has directly observed for the first time how Hawaiian false killer whales remove fish from longline fishing gear. The team, coordinated by Scripps Institution of ...

Dec. 10—Two bodies were recovered Monday on a beach near Hoonah, along with debris from a commercial fishing boat that sank in rough weather the morning of Dec. 1 with five men aboard, Alaska State ...

From beaches across Mexico, groups of women in diving gear who call themselves sirenas, or mermaids, are taking on the ocean’s ghosts. Starting their days at 6 a.m., they search for and remove one of ...

Per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), longline fishing involves a mainline attached to a boat that has several offshoots ending in a baited hook. Buoys keep the line afloat ...

Hundreds of thousands of sharks, sea birds and other marine species are accidentally killed each year after becoming snagged or entangled in longline fishing gear. New models may help reduce the ...

Discarded nets, lines and traps are a hazard to marine life and ecosystems around the world, but pioneering programs are tackling the problem creatively through education, prevention, ocean cleanups ...

A team of researchers and fishermen used video and audio recordings to observe false killer whales removing fish from a longline fishing hook, a behavior known as depredation. A team of researchers ...