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 ...

New legislation aims to phase out mile-long fishing nets off the California coast that have entangled and killed sea life, including endangered species, by the thousands over the past few decades. The ...

For the first time since its creation more than a decade ago, a sea-turtle conservation area that encompasses 25,000 square miles of ocean off Southern California has been closed to gill-net fishing ...

State lawmakers want to end a fishing practice that hauls in millions of dollars a year and puts swordfish on restaurant plates – and might be an all-too-efficient killer of dolphin and whales. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...