Once sold as low-cost bycatch, these delicious denizens of the deep now fetch a pretty penny — a Tapei eatery notably served a 14-legged isopod with ramen for $65. Researchers believe that their ...

These animals are unintentional “bycatch” of commercial fisheries and either drown or are tossed overboard to die from their injuries. Bycatch is the greatest conservation threat to marine mammal ...

“Bycatch not only affects marine mammal populations but also raises serious animal welfare concerns,” said Georgia Hancock, program director and senior attorney for the Animal Welfare ...

Devon Wildlife Trust identified the animal as a conger eel and said they were commonly caught as bycatch - which is when marine life becomes entangled in fishing gear. James Weston, who ...

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 ...

Appallingly, the animals are usually conscious through much of the ordeal. Approximately 50 million more sharks die annually as bycatch in unregulated fisheries, often through the use of destructive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bycatch (wildlife that is accidentally captured in nets ... In 2017 six Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) were identified in the UK to protect marine animals. However, there are no fishing ...

An eel which washed-up on a beach in Devon is believed to have died after it was "entangled" in a man-made material, a wildlife trust has said. Devon Wildlife Trust identified the animal as a ...