Massachusetts has taken a significant step toward addressing the environmental threat of abandoned fishing gear, commonly known as "ghost gear," with passage of a new law that grants the state the ...
About half the salmon swimming up the Columbia River come from hatcheries, and most of them are raised to be caught by fishermen. The rest are wild, and many of them are protected under the Endangered ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Priya covers the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. Removing such gear, once located, can be an onerous task. In ...
A roundtable discussion in Cagliari organized by ASD Blue Life. Mingoia: "We estimate there are at least 5,000 fishing gear to be recovered." Per restare aggiornato entra nel nostro canale Whatsapp ...
The Wild Fish Conservancy in partnership with other conservation groups has spent two seasons employing test fish traps on the Columbia River near Cathlamet. The once-outlawed commercial fishing ...
Researchers in Hawaii say they are "surprised and sad" to find plastic items and other marine debris in the stomach of a 60-ton sperm whale that washed up on a reef in a park in Kauai. The whale ...
KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Archaeologists have discovered a prehistoric fish trap constructed of rock walls near the mouth of a salmon stream on Alaska’s Kodiak Island. The trap is in a lower intertidal ...