Bycatch from fishing is killing Europe’s seabirds in huge and unsustainable numbers. Jeremy Herry exposes the scale of the problem and sheds lights on the simple solutions that could turn things ...

Short-tailed shearwaters are seen flying over the Chukchi Sea in 2016. Shearwaters accounted for more than half of the birds killed in bycatch in the 2021 Alaska halibut and groundfish harvests, ...

Whenever fishing vessels harvest fish, other animals can be accidentally caught or entangled in fishing gear as bycatch. Numerous strategies exist to prevent bycatch, but data have been lacking on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s advisory panel listen to testimony from a tribal leader in Anchorage ...

Our oceans are full of sophisticated, perfect traps: Nets, hooks, fishing lines. Designed to capture animals destined for our dinner tables, they often catch other wildlife too. This accidental ...

Liz is a marine biologist, environmental regulation specialist, and science writer. She has previously studied Antarctic fish, seaweed, and marine coastal ecology. Bycatch is a term used in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That means simply stopping seafood consumption is neither a fair nor realistic option for most people and places: not to mention ...

Billions of snow crab disappeared from the Bering Sea in the past few years — a crash that’s devastated Alaska’s crab fishing fleet and a harvest that just two years ago was worth $130 million.

Long-line caught halibut await unloading in Petersburg. (Angela Denning/KFSK) The council that manages fishing in federal waters voted last week to link groundfish trawl fishing in the Bering Sea and ...