Researchers from U.S. and fishers from Mexico’s Gulf of California have developed solar-powered LED buoys that attach to gill nets to help reduce sea turtle bycatch by 63%. The floating devices ...

The building’s story goes back to 1865, when it first opened as the Richmond Inn in the little fishing village just off Lake Erie. It had a hotel upstairs and a sailor’s saloon below. When the tides ...

Discarded nets, lines and traps are a hazard to marine life and ecosystems around the world, but pioneering programs are tackling the problem creatively through education, prevention, ocean cleanups ...

French charity association “Kernic Solidarites” member in charge of logistic Christian Abaziou and its president Gerard Le Duff sort out fishnets, in the Britany port of Roscoff, on October 17, 2025.

ROSCOFF, France - Once used to scoop fish from the sea off the coast of France, recycled fishing nets are finding new life in Ukraine to protect the country’s roads and military infrastructure from ...

An annual fish recovery effort at Lava Island Falls over the weekend netted and saved thousands of rainbow and brown trout, sculpin and other fish. Work to recover fish in shallow pools continued into ...

Ian Falconer kept thinking about the heaps of discarded plastic fishing nets he saw at Newlyn harbor near his home in Cornwall, southern England. “I thought ‘it’s such a waste,’” he said. “There has ...

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Studies have shown that lighted nets can reduce bycatch of sea turtles and sharks, but the idea has faced many hurdles to adoption. The batteries are short lived, expensive to replace and raise ...