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 ...
The judge agreed with the National Marine Fisheries Service that its review of the annual harvest specifications sufficiently ...
Overfishing, bycatch and plastic Health is one reason to rethink your fish consumption, and the environment is another. Overfishing and bycatch are the biggest problems. The World Wildlife Fund ...
Domestic bycatch is monitored by the National Marine Fisheries Services and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with help from heavy-duty legislation like the Marine Mammal Protection Act ...
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 ...