You can net your fish, remove your lure without hassle, and allow the fish to recover underwater while still in the net if needed. It’s also important to use your net properly.

Fishing line and nets are having a major impact on Cape fur seals, the most common marine mammal observed around the coastline of South Africa and Namibia, where they are endemic. The first ...

New legislation aims to phase out mile-long fishing nets off the California coast that have entangled and killed sea life, including endangered species, by the thousands over the past few decades.

The whale, entangled in crab or fishing lines, was spotted about 3:30 p.m. ET Monday, swimming off the coast of Dana Point in southern California, officials with the National Oceanic and ...

California’s Dungeness crab fishing areas to close after lines entangle migrating whales. Fresh Dungeness crabs fill a tank at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco in 2018.

The Center for Coastal Studies' Marine Animal Entanglement Response Team, based out of Provincetown, used underwater cameras to cut the lines and free the whale around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, with ...

Durban — A female green turtle found stranded on a beach, entangled in fishing nets, fishing lines and ropes, was taken to uShaka Sea World for immediate medical care.