WWF welcomes Indonesian moratorium on new trawl and purse seine fisheries licenses but an immediate reduction in fishing efforts is needed in order to protect the Coral Triangle, the world’s most ...
FAIRBANKS — Alaska’s Board of Fisheries voted 5-2 Saturday to not approve a new type of commercial chum salmon fishing gear in the lower Yukon River. In one of the board’s most contested decisions of ...
This picture of early tuna purse seining operations in the tropical Pacific Ocean illustrates the potential for fishermen to inadvertently catch dolphins and other marine mammals as byproduct.