A state measure to phase out drift-net fishing in California waters — and remove a hazard that can inadvertently trap sea lions, dolphins and turtles — was signed into law Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown ...

Permits are being issued to commercial swordfish fishermen who forgo large drift nets for a new system that won’t also capture whales and dolphins. The National Marine Fisheries Service recently ...

Fishing nets, used to catch swordfish along the California coast, have entangled and killed other sea life by the thousands, according to a months-long investigation by NBC Bay Area. While the number ...

Upset over controversial swordfish nets that inadvertently trap dolphins and other sea animals, a coalition of animal rights groups has released a graphic video in hopes of winning support for ...

new video loaded: Kerry Condemns Use of Fishing Drift Nets transcript In Paris, Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the use of drift nets in fishing that he and the United Nations worked to ban in ...

A destructive fishing practice indiscriminately killing massive amounts of marine life is taking place in our world’s oceans. The practice of dragging enormous nets suspended for miles in open water ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A rogue fishing vessel found using outlawed drift nets in the North Pacific was seized with about 30 dead sharks, 30 tons of illegally caught squid and an infestation of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A 191-foot fishing boat suspected of using an illegal high seas drift net to catch a half-ton of salmon in the North Pacific was detained by the U.S. Coast Guard last week ...

Washington state officials say an Atlantic salmon that escaped from a collapsed net pen at Cypress Island has been captured in a drift net 40 miles (64 kilometers) up the Skagit River. Fish ...