Fishermen in Alaska and elsewhere are trying to bring more attention to the impacts that trawlers are having on our marine resources.

You've no doubt heard about the horrors of lost commercial fishing nets, which drift through the ocean killing a multitude of sea creatures. Well, the Farallon Buoy is designed to help, by allowing ...

A Hawaii ocean research center has collaborated with NOAA to fund the bounties. Those who make their living out on the open ocean now have the opportunity to partake in a side hustle that ...

Fisheries managers allow whitefish trawlers to inadvertently scoop up halibut, crab and salmon in their nets. The bycatch rate is relatively low. But because the trawlers catch so much of their target ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The latest Great Lakes Fishing Decree has taken effect, and its guidelines for certain Great Lakes fisheries in Michigan will be in place for the next 24 years. The decree was ...

Volunteer divers spent time this week near a sunken pre-World War II destroyer, retrieving commercial fishing nets 150 feet under the sea off the coast of San Pedro as part of an international effort ...

LDWF agent cites a man in St. Mary Parish for several commercial fishing violations including unlicensed operation and ...

“I started out fishing with my father in the river,” said the 66-year-old commercial fisherman. “I picked up on all that information just by watching. I was fishing with him from 7 or 8 years old.” ...

In Southern California the inherent tension between conservation and fisheries is evident in the trade-off between the need to protect endangered sea turtles from getting caught in fishing nets and ...

Dustin Hebert, 33, of Pierre Part, LA was cited for alleged commercial fishing violations in St. Mary Parish on Nov. 13, ...