Kevin Lester, a geographic information systems specialist who worked on the project, said the idea came about due to the ...

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

As dawn broke, fisherman Viktor Kocaj hauled his net on board his battered skiff, but after a whole night in the Adriatic, ...

Here's how Jorge the sea turtle prepared for the improbable journey—decades after he was found tangled in a fishing net off ...

The dramatic moment a whale entangled in fishing nets off the coast of Queensland was rescued has been caught on tape.

This is Mongabay’s second story in a short series about the new Shimoni Fish Port. Read the first story here. SHIMONI, Kenya ...

Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the Legislative Building in droves over the past week as ...

Eastern Baltic cod have evolved to be smaller and slip through nets, according to landmark research that links overfishing to ...

Dragging nets along the ocean floor is like ‘clearcutting an old-growth forest,’ Pacific Wild says. An industry group ...

A new competition was launched to develop innovative tools that can be used to cut and remove derelict fishing nets from the ...

The never-before-seen footage of sea creatures struggling in fishing nets is featured in National Geographic’s new documentary Ocean with David Attenborough.

Scientists on a research expedition in the Southern Ocean captured the first footage of a living Gonatus antarcticus squid. The colorful, three-foot squid species was only known to scientists ...