A marine animal caught unintentionally by commercial fishing gear is known as bycatch. Dolphins trapped in nets targeting ...

Come January 1, 2026, in order to receive authorization to export their products to the US, foreign fisheries and nations ...

Each year, more than 650,000 whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals are caught and killed in fishing gear around the globe. These animals are unintentional “bycatch” of commercial fisheries and ...

Around the globe each year, more than 650,000 marine mammals are killed or seriously injured as bycatch—entangled or hooked in fishing gear meant for other species. Since 1972, the Marine Mammal ...

The U.S. is set to ban seafood imports from countries that don’t work to minimize accidentally catching dolphins, whales, and ...

The provisions’ purpose is to protect marine mammals from bycatch in foreign fishing gear by holding countries exporting seafood to the United States to the same standards as U.S. fisheries. The ...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, which sets management policies for Alaska’s federal fisheries, began meeting Monday to discuss potential new rules to limit chum salmon bycatch in ...

US fisheries regulators are mulling new rules to crack down on chum salmon bycatch by the Alaska pollock fleet in the Bering Sea, KUCB reports. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC ...