In a major win for ocean conservation and ethical seafood sourcing, the U.S. government has agreed to halt seafood imports linked to deadly bycatch that harms whales, dolphins, and other marine life.

Tech company Bird, formerly known as MessageBird, is leaving the Netherlands and restructuring its operations across six global hubs, CEO Robert Vis announced. The move marks a major shift for the ...

Bird flu has been detected in rats for the first time in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Four black rats in ...

A view of the deck of a docked factory trawler, taken from above. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, which manages federal fisheries off Alaska’s coast, wrapped up its February ...

From 2017 to 2023, there were 6,100 annual dolphin bycatch deaths in the Bay of Biscay, ORCA reported via PELAGIS, a marine mammal and seabird watchdog. From December 2023 to March 2024, when a ...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) has advanced a set of five alternatives for reducing chum salmon bycatch in the U.S. state of Alaska’s pollock fishery, setting up a vote on ...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council is under pressure to curb chum salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea trawl fishery, but the council must weigh the impact of bycatch against the economic ...

A marine animal caught unintentionally by commercial fishing gear is known as bycatch. Dolphins trapped in nets targeting tuna, sea turtles swept up in shrimp trawls and terrapins caught in crab ...

Since 2001, Scientists from the Fisheries Department have been uniting efforts to monitor seabird interactions, develop and test bycatch mitigation measures, and monitor their implementation.

For the second time in two years, NOAA Fisheries has denied a request for the agency to take emergency action to institute “a cap of zero on any further Chinook salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea and ...

Spurred by a flood of testimony from Western Alaska Tribes, and a detailed recommendation from their own advisory panel of industry stakeholders, the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council revised ...

The mitigation measures developed in the South Georgia fishery have subsequently been adopted in other CCAMLR fisheries and have helped guide global best practice in addressing seabird bycatch.