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 ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard Sector/ Air Station Corpus Christi stopped a lancha in federal waters and recovered three and a half nautical miles of illegal fishing gear. The Coast Guard ...
Greenpeace activists witnessed sharks being hunted by a Spanish fishing ship using longline fishing off the coast of New Zealand. According to The Guardian, Greenpeace Australia Pacific members aboard ...
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 ...
NEW ORLEANS - In a blow to Florida fishermen, regulators voted this week to take steps to shut down a common type of fishing that uses long lines affixed with hooks and squid bait because it may be ...
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 ...
Federal fishery regulators voted to uphold an existing ban on longline fisheries, a fishing method that ensnares high numbers of marine mammals and other unintended catch. Last week, the Pacific ...
OAKLAND, Calif.— A federal district court has ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to adequately analyze threats to critically endangered leatherback sea turtles when it allowed ...
Phu Yen, 21 to 24 April-- Interaction of marine turtles with fishing gear is an issue of global importance. WWF is implementing an initiative aimed at reducing the interaction of protected species, ...
WASHINGTON (CN) - Longline fishing would be prohibited in a 30-nautical mile area around the Northern Mariana Islands, and purse seine fishing prohibited throughout the Mariana Archipelago, if a ...
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council has voted to recommend a replacement strategy to mitigate seabird interactions by Hawaii deep-set longline fishing vessels. In a 12-0 vote, with ...