THE National Marine Fisheries Service is looking to re-open areas that have been closed to drift longlining, a deadly and indiscriminate killer of deep-sea fish and marine life. But the Recreational ...

SACRAMENTO — A federal fisheries council recommended an indefinite moratorium Thursday on the use of longlines off the entire West Coast. A typical longline boat lays thousands of baited hooks over ...

Achievements that furthered conservation efforts for billfish may be in jeopardy, because longlines may soon be back off the Florida coast and in other important areas that currently restrict their ...

Longline fishing fleets on the West Coast have agreed to voluntarily improve their fishing gear to protect seabirds. Birds such as the albatross that live mostly at sea are attracted to the long, ...

Government is still refusing to admit whether it intends to push longline fishing as a commercial venture. As reported in Saturday's The Royal Gazette, a planning application by the Department of ...

A world-renowned marine conservationist has called on Government to think twice about introducing longline fishing to the Island's waters. Dr. Callum Roberts, author of the award-winning 'The ...

WE are an island nation. Marine resources and the sea that surrounds us are critical to our economic prosperity and sense of who we are. It is natural that periodically, maritime issues crop up abroad ...

A recent study has found that unregulated longline fishing for Patagonian Toothfish immediately outside the 200-mile Falkland Islands Outer Conservation Zone (FOCZ) is likely to be having significant ...

Leatherback sea turtle at the Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Virgin Islands (Photo by Claudia Lombard, USFWS) (CN) – A federal judge has blocked a bid by the Trump administration to bring ...

The transition of gillnets to longline gears for commercial fishing is having a positive impact on the marine ecosystems, said the officials of the World Wildlife Fund-Pakistan (WWF-P), Sindh ...