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 ...

On a March morning in the suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state’s capital in southern India, a group of fishers were ...

In the short span of just over a decade, Bureo, a small company based in Ventura, CA, has worked with local fishermen and ...

Kyle de Bouter holds up a pair of Patagonia board shorts made of recycled fishing nets, smiling as workers nearby slice old nylon nets to stack into seven-foot square, one-ton bales. “This is 100% ...

Enter solar-powered light buoys. A team from Arizona State University recently worked with coastal gillnet fishers in Mexico to develop lights that charge with the sun and function like buoys. The LED ...

When fishermen set out into the ocean, they often return to shore without their nets. Sometimes, pieces of their nets get lost. Sometimes, they choose to abandon them because them because they’re torn ...

BLAINE, Wash. — A team of U.S. Army deep sea divers spent nearly four weeks recovering derelict fishing nets from deepwater habitats on the bottom of the Puget Sound, partnering with the Washington ...

This is the heartwarming moment a turtle tangled in a discarded fishing net was freed and released back into the ocean. Fishermen spotted the hapless green sea turtle caught in the nylon mesh along ...