Game wardens were able to remove all six miles of long-line gear from the water while managing to release all of the sharks it had hooked.

The U.S. Coast Guard preformed a large rescue Saturday after close to 100 finned creatures were found stuck in illegally ...

A team of researchers and fishermen has directly observed for the first time how Hawaiian false killer whales remove fish from longline fishing gear.

The investigation in locating five sets of illegal longline fishing gear was successful and 41 live red snappers and 13 sharks were released back into their habitat.

Offshore longline fisheries take an especially heavy toll on ocean life. The non-selective technique has the highest rate of shark bycatch. “Longline fishing gear is exactly what it sounds like ...

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 Fis… ...

The move comes after studies showed that as many as 1,000 sea turtles are being snagged every 18 months in long-line gear, a practice in which fishermen bait fishing lines before they lay them on the ...

Hundreds of thousands of sharks, sea birds and other marine species are accidentally killed each year after becoming snagged or entangled in longline fishing gear. New models may help reduce the ...

Greenpeace activists witnessed sharks being hunted by a Spanish fishing ship using longline fishing off the coast of New Zealand. According to The Guardian, Greenpeace Australia Pacific members ...

A team of researchers and fishermen used video and audio recordings to observe false killer whales removing fish from a longline fishing hook, a behavior known as depredation.

Center for Biological Diversity: OAKLAND, Calif.— A federal district court has ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to adequately analyze threats to critically endangered ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Longline fishing would be prohibited in a 30-nautical mile area around the Northern Mariana Islands, and purse seine fishing prohibited throughout the Mariana Archipelago, if a ...