Federal fishery regulators voted to uphold an existing ban on longline fisheries, a fishing method that ensnares high numbers of marine mammals and other unintended catch. Last week, the Pacific ...

The federal government said Thursday it will loosen regulations on Hawaii-based longline swordfish fishermen that are designed to protect sea turtles. HONOLULU - The federal government said Thursday ...

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that federal officials must determine if California’s long-line fishing fleet is harming endangered sea turtles before it permits any of these fishermen to continue ...

The federal government shut down California’s swordfish fleet Thursday, ordering the two dozen boats to stop stringing more than a million baited hooks across a large swath of the Pacific Ocean ...

Commercial fishing for swordfish -- one of the more popular seafoods for consumers -- has been banned by the United States in a large swath of the Pacific Ocean. The move aims not at saving swordfish ...

Read more articles from the DCReport here. The Pacific leatherback sea turtle, at up to 2,200 pounds the largest turtle on earth, could disappear from our oceans, yet Trump regulators have OK’d a type ...

HONOLULU (AP) The federal government said it will loosen regulations on Hawaii-based longline swordfish fishermen that are designed to protect sea turtles. The revisions, announced Thursday and due to ...