Scott Simon talks with Arizona State University researcher Jesse Senko about the benefits of attaching LED lights on vertical fishing nets to make them less dangerous for marine mammals. Gillnets are ...

One of the many threats facing sea turtles, all species of which are categorized as threatened, is net fishing. Turtles can unwittingly become scooped up in fishing nets as bycatch. Now, a team of ...

Fishing nets are a fairly simple piece of equipment, and their design has largely remained unchanged for hundreds of years — but scientists have recently devised a clever new upgrade that could make ...

Illuminating fishing nets with low-cost lights could reduce the terrible impact they have on seabirds and marine-dwellers by more than 85 percent, new research has shown. Illuminating fishing nets ...

Mangaluru: Traditional boat fishermen staged a flash protest at Mangaluru Fishing Dock on Saturday, opposing the use of LED lights for fishing by mechanised fishing vessels, including motorized ...

Despite strict regulatory measures, destructive fishing practices using LED devices are causing irreparable damage to the marine ecosystem across Kollam coast. Reportedly, many boats including ...

It’s early morning, around 5:30 am, and Govind Parab has ventured into the deep sea with his fishing net. After waiting for nearly two hours, he hasn’t caught a single fish. Govind doesn’t own a ...

As an avid outdoorsman with more than 17 years in the hunting and fishing retail industry, Brad Olson knows a thing or two about having fun and selling fun to others. So, when Olson, who worked at ...

Night fishing can be an exhilarating experience, full of mystery and expectation. When will something take the bait? What will it be? Will I overcome it, or will it overcome me? If you hook something ...

Gillnets are walls of netting that hang in water and trap fish. They are the most widely used fishing device in the world but also often trap sharks, sea turtles and rays who can't escape and die.