This definition casts a wide net and includes, for example, ocean sunfish (Mola mola), an unmarketable bycatch of the California swordfish fishery; the 10 orcas accidentally ensnared off Alaska's ...

Predators and prey in the ocean rely on chemical signals for survival, but this vital sensory mode can also be their Achilles ...

The jumbo isopod has been named Bathynomus vaderi because its carapaced cranium resembles Darth Vader’s iconic helmet from ...

The tires are another example of how reckless human activity ... has been pushed to near-extinction by ghost fishing and bycatch in gillnets. A report released in 2019 by the International ...

Tuna is one of the world’s favorite types of fish, but there are ways to get all that seafood flavor with plants, too.

The distinctive siren sounds, the lifeguards announce the shark sighting, and most swimmers come in. A second siren sounds ...

That falls mostly to all other commercial, sport and subsistence users. Some examples? Along with the profits, Seattle’s “iniquitous instrumentalities” also take the most bycatch, which they are ...

Outbreaks of shark hysteria only divert attention from the real danger at our beaches, which is swimmers getting caught in ...

Whale sharks are drawn to natural underwater features such as seamounts and canyons as well as artificial features like ...

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