Around the world, fishermen use low-cost nets that sit like fences on coastal seafloors. Known as set gill nets, this type of gear is highly effective at catching fish when the mesh snags them by ...

The Ninilchik Traditional Council has for years been seeking approval to use a more effective method for catching their subsistence allocation of sockeye salmon on the Kenai River and late last week, ...

The latest effort to ban gill net fishing on the Columbia River is dead, at least for now. The group backing the proposed ballot initiative said it will abandon the Protect Our Salmon Act following an ...

MONTEREY — An environmental nonprofit out of Monterey is applauding this year’s state budget that is funding a transition away from deadly gill-net fishing by awarding commercial fishermen cash for ...

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dolphin numbers in the Indian Ocean may have dropped by more than 80 percent in recent decades, with an ...

Undersea canyons off Madagascar may turn out to be the Indian Ocean epicentre for coelacanths, the remarkable “fossil fish” which re-surfaced from apparent extinction in 1938. Coelacanths have turned ...