Government is still refusing to admit whether it intends to push longline fishing as a commercial venture. As reported in Saturday's The Royal Gazette, a planning application by the Department of ...

THE National Marine Fisheries Service is looking to re-open areas that have been closed to drift longlining, a deadly and indiscriminate killer of deep-sea fish and marine life. But the Recreational ...

Achievements that furthered conservation efforts for billfish may be in jeopardy, because longlines may soon be back off the Florida coast and in other important areas that currently restrict their ...

The transition of gillnets to longline gears for commercial fishing is having a positive impact on the marine ecosystems, said the officials of the World Wildlife Fund-Pakistan (WWF-P), Sindh ...

A world-renowned marine conservationist has called on Government to think twice about introducing longline fishing to the Island's waters. Dr. Callum Roberts, author of the award-winning 'The ...

The 60-mile-long fishing lines that can snag endangered leatherback sea turtles would be allowed off the California coast for the first time, under a decision being weighed by a federal agency. The ...

Leatherback sea turtle at the Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Virgin Islands (Photo by Claudia Lombard, USFWS) (CN) – A federal judge has blocked a bid by the Trump administration to bring ...

THE Bahamas National Trust is strongly opposed to the introduction of longline fishing within the country’s economic exclusive zone - a destructive practice it warned that could change the Bahamian ...

A recent study has found that unregulated longline fishing for Patagonian Toothfish immediately outside the 200-mile Falkland Islands Outer Conservation Zone (FOCZ) is likely to be having significant ...

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 ...