Docks and launching ramps can be the most dangerous places for an angler with a fragile ego. Here’s what I mean, I recently had a rough trip, and it seemed that the fish just didn’t want to bite.

BLAINE, Wash. — A team of U.S. Army deep sea divers spent nearly four weeks recovering derelict fishing nets from deepwater habitats on the bottom of the Puget Sound, partnering with the Washington ...

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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 ...

Kyle de Bouter holds up a pair of Patagonia board shorts made of recycled fishing nets, smiling as workers nearby slice old nylon nets to stack into seven-foot square, one-ton bales. “This is 100% ...

In the fishing industry, ‘unintentional bycatch’ is the general term for ‘anything that we don’t mean to catch’. Dolphins, turtles, sharks and sea birds are some of the most common animals that face ...

Mosquito nets are being widely used for fishing in poor countries around the world. The practice may be particularly unsustainable because the fine mesh of the nets means lots of juvenile fish are ...

In an archaeological achievement, researchers from Kumamoto University have successfully reconstructed the structure of prehistoric fishing nets from the Jomon period (ca. 14,000–900 BCE) by analyzing ...