For the first time in its 70-year history, the International Whaling Commission has issued an "extinction alert." Known as the world’s tiniest porpoise, the vaquita is facing the potential danger of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Environmentalists claimed victory following an agreement by the National Marine Fisheries Service to complete a new biological assessment on the state of humpback whales living in ...

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities will use satellite tracking, drones, three naval bases and a fleet of small patrol boats to enforce a new gillnet fishing ban in the upper Sea of Cortes in a bid to ...

ASTORIA, Ore. – Some commercial fishermen on the Columbia River are experimenting with alternative gear to avoid being shunted to side channels for using gillnets, which have been criticized as ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a new law aimed at protecting marine life by gradually phasing out the use of set gillnets, a type of commercial fishing gear linked to widespread ocean ...

Gillnetting boats sit moored at the Port of Camas-Washougal during a previous season. As Oregon and Washington try to hammer out a policy regarding the nets on the Columbia River, both gillnetters and ...

MEXICO CITY – Mexico enacted a permanent ban on gillnet fishing in the northern Gulf of California on Friday in a bid to protect the critically endangered porpoise known as the vaquita marina. The ...

While state lawmakers consider recommendations by the governor’s task force on steps to restore the population and health of Southern Resident killer whales, the state’s fish and game commission has ...