The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission recently adopted temporary rules requiring the use of bycatch reduction devices in the pink shrimp trawl fishery. The new rules took effect Aug. 1 and continue ...

(Phys.org) —Researchers working with the groundfish fishing industry in the Pacific Northwest have tested a new "flexible sorting grid excluder" – a type of bycatch reduction device that shows promise ...

Nets equipped with water bottles and other tricks can help save some species, while allowing fisherman to still catch others ...

Shrimpers and biologists surprised the experts last summer by using modified trawl nets that drastically reduced the amount of popular fish caught and discarded. The nets were fitted with a variety of ...

NEW BERN, N.C. (WNCT) – Proposed regulations on shrimpers could have significant impacts on the daily catches as well as the fishing industry in eastern North Carolina. The biggest talking point ...

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources biologists are looking for recreational and commercial crabbers to help them improve the design of a device that will help reduce bycatch while ...

The effect of commercial fisheries on nontarget species is a burgeoning issue for both fishery managers and estuarine biologists. We documented diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) bycatch in ...

One of Australia's most valuable commonwealth fisheries is offering its prawn trawler crews cash incentives to reduce the take of non-target species, or bycatch. Austral Fisheries, one of several ...