Federal fishery regulators voted to uphold an existing ban on longline fisheries, a fishing method that ensnares high numbers of marine mammals and other unintended catch. Last week, the Pacific ...

“We scored a victory for loggerhead sea turtles,” said Todd Steiner, executive director of Turtle Island Restoration Network, after the National Marine Fisheries Services, following a court order, ...

West Coast fishery managers have narrowly rejected a plan to open the deep water off Oregon and California to longline fishing for swordfish, saying it poses too much of a threat to loggerhead turtles ...

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that federal officials must determine if California’s long-line fishing fleet is harming endangered sea turtles before it permits any of these fishermen to continue ...

MONTEREY — Will sustainably-caught swordfish receive a wave of support from Central Coast fishermen, consumers and restaurateurs? Clean-fishing advocates sure hope so as efforts continue to phase out ...

A research program that will allow commercial longline boats to fish the Charleston Bump, potentially putting more than 100,000 hooks in the water, angers offshore fishermen who fear the move is a ...

OAKLAND, Calif.— A federal district court has ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to adequately analyze threats to critically endangered leatherback sea turtles when it allowed ...

Read more articles from the DCReport here. The Pacific leatherback sea turtle, at up to 2,200 pounds the largest turtle on earth, could disappear from our oceans, yet Trump regulators have OK’d a type ...

Commercial fishing for swordfish -- one of the more popular seafoods for consumers -- has been banned by the United States in a large swath of the Pacific Ocean. The move aims not at saving swordfish ...

JOHN NIELSEN reporting: Long-line fishing boats that drag tens of thousands of baited hooks behind them are the reason it's still fairly easy to buy swordfish and tuna at your local grocery store.

Federal agencies were wrong to allow Hawaii’s longline swordfish industry to expand fishing efforts while allowing the hooking or entangling of more endangered sea turtles, a U.S. appeals court ruled ...