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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity sued NOAA Fisheries today to force it to protect endangered Pacific humpback whales from entanglements in California drift gillnets. In the past two ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The National Marine Fisheries Service agreed today to complete a new assessment of the threat of drift gillnets in California to endangered humpback whales. In the 2020-2021 and ...

Three of the six groups backing a November ballot measure to remove gillnets from the lower Columbia River are now urging a no vote, saying an alternate proposal from Gov. is a better option. The ...

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 ...

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy is under fire for posting photos of an 10-foot great white shark hanging by its tail on a dock in Massachusetts. According to the agency, the great white was ...

Dead fish, including an endangered smalltooth sawfish, are displayed on top of a cooler in Collier County Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. FWC Two Miami Gardens men are accused of using an illegal gillnet ...

Gov. John Kitzhaber on Thursday proposed a solution to the long-running and contentious issue of gillnet fishing on the lower Columbia River in non-tribal fisheries. His proposal gets ahead of the ...

(Reuters) - The Trump administration unlawfully withdrew a plan to limit the number of whales, turtles and other marine creatures permitted to be inadvertently killed or harmed by drift gillnets used ...