LED-equipped fishing nets help protect wildlife from unintentional captures
The fish we want to capture aren't turned away by the lights.
Tag: fishing
Researchers create bizarre floating gadget that could save millions of seabirds
It's a floating buoy that has big looming eyes
Pirate attacks are more frequent in areas with harmful fishing practices
Yes, piracy is still a problem -- and it goes hand in hand with bad or illegal fishing practices.
Endangered fish species are legally being sold as seafood
A third of fished stocks are exploited at biologically unsustainable levels.
Chinese fishing fleet threatens Galapagos wildlife
The islands near Ecuador are abundant with indigenous species, and illegal Chinese fishing affects them every year.
A fine kettle of fish: how COVID-19 is impacting fishing enthusiasts, industry
All areas of life are affected by the pandemic, even some most of us don't really give that much thought ...
Deep-water fishery makes a comeback in a rare conservation success story
Bottom trawler fishermen are reinventing themselves in a sustainable way
Oceans are filled up with abandoned fishing gear, report warns
Every year more than 640.000 tonnes of nets, lines, pots and traps are dumped in the sea
Whales blow bubbly nets to help them fish — and we have it on camera
God, they're cute.
Number of fishing vessels doubles while fish stocks crumble
There is fewer fish in the ocean -- and we're sending more ships to catch them than ever.
Shark numbers plummet by 92% in Australian waters
Sharks are declining at an alarming rate.
Old fish don’t want to swim deep — but we’re fishing them all out of shallow waters
What we thought is a natural law is probably 'just' impending ecological breakdown.
Dolphins, otters, and seals killed and used as bait in global fisheries
It's an undocumented practice -- we don't know how widespread and widely used it is.
Greenland, Faroe Islands to stop commercial fishing of wild salmon for 12 years
The deal was made possible by the efforts of the Atlantic Salmon Federation and North Atlantic Salmon Fund.
Cyprian dolphins resort to chewing through fishing nets due to overfishing
We're not giving them any other option.
In 2016, fishing ships cast their nets on over 55% of the ocean surface
That's a lot of fishing.
Fishing banned in the thawing Arctic for the next 16 years in historic pact
Sometimes, the world can work together for the common gold.
Trump administration eliminates new protection for endangered whales and turtles
It's not a good year for the environment.
Oldest fishing hooks ever found show humans were fishing for longer than we’ve thought
Found on the island of Okinawa, these hooks show fish has been on the menu longer than we've though before.
There is still hope: scientists show how fisheries can double production
A new research modeled thousands of fisheries from around the world and found that a straightforward economic reform will not ...
Mission set to study deep underwater mountains
The RRS James Cook, an UK research vessel, will spend six weeks studying the deep sea mountains of the Indian ...
