It builds on fears businesses will fold as the state government remains committed to newly introduced environmental protection laws that will ban gillnets across the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park by ...

(KHNL) It's a way of life for many Hawaii residents, but the state says it needs to restrict gillnet fishing to ensure there are fish for future generations. Fisherman object, saying it's a means of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Environmentalists claimed victory following an agreement by the National Marine Fisheries Service to complete a new biological assessment on the state of humpback whales living in ...

A salmon swims upstream. (Image by Cock-Robin from Pixabay via Courthouse News) (CN) — A federal judge rebuffed a bid by the U.S. government to block Alaskans who aren’t “qualified subsistence users” ...

The state government and environmental groups have heralded the end of the industry as a win for the world-heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef and its resident dugongs and sea turtles. But the ...

The loggerhead sea turtle taken in by the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Photo courtesy the aquarium Large-mesh drift gillnet fishing has been temporarily banned in a loggerhead turtle conservation area ...

Researchers analyzed the genome of 20 vaquitas Vaquitas are "not doomed" by genetic factors, giving hope for their recovery The species has "high potential" for recovery if gillnet fishing is ceased ...

SKAMOKAWA — When Marty Kuller was growing up in Seward, Alaska, commercial fishermen walked tall, and little boys like Kuller looked up to them. “Growing up as a young man, the commercial fishermen ...

Protesters will rally in Home Hill this weekend, before towing their fishing boats to Ayr. See what’s got them so upset. Protesters and their supporters will assemble at the Home Hill Comfort Stop at ...

Three of the six groups backing a November ballot measure to remove gillnets from the lower Columbia River are now urging a no vote, saying an alternate proposal from Gov. is a better option. The ...

The world’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita, remains under threat, despite the extension of a temporary ban on gillnets in the Upper Gulf of California, announced yesterday by the ...