A new experiment is testing the commercial success of fish traps in Washington and Oregon. Even as some conservationists ...

You've no doubt heard about the horrors of lost commercial fishing nets, which drift through the ocean killing a multitude of sea creatures. Well, the Farallon Buoy is designed to help, by allowing ...

They weigh 3-million pounds, cost $20-million and give giant headaches to state leaders who just wish they would go far, far away. Nearly a year after Florida voters banned large fishing nets from ...

Volunteer divers spent time this week near a sunken pre-World War II destroyer, retrieving commercial fishing nets 150 feet under the sea off the coast of San Pedro as part of an international effort ...

Commercial fishing for Dungeness crab ends next week in the Bay Area, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said. The reason is to minimize the risk of humpback whales getting entangled in ...