Fishing columnist Jordan Rodriguez explains the benefits of carrying a landing net, along with tips on how to properly net your trophy catch.

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 ...

Members of the public noticed the turtle on the Tinley Manor beach, tangled in a mess of fishing nets and ropes and alerted the lifeguards who called the National Sea Rescue Institute to assist.

New rescue efforts are underway to save the life of a blue whale apparently enmeshed in a fishing net in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, authorities said Tuesday.

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 ...

All commercial Dungeness crab fishing zones off the California coast will close this month after humpback whales became tangled in fishing gear during their migrating season, wildlife officials said.

They were the first to spot the 80-foot-long blue whale, entangled in a crab pot fishing line several miles off the California coast. An endangered blue whale was sighted entangled by a fish line ...

The sawfish had commercial fishing lines wrapped around its rostrum (snout) ...

Crews worked for over nine hours Wednesday to free a humpback whale that had become entangled in fishing lines.

A crew returned from the northernmost islands in the Hawaiian archipelago this week with a boatload of marine plastic and abandoned fishing nets that threaten to entangle endangered Hawaiian monk ...