Thousands of sea mammals and birds are killed as a result of fishing nets every year.

Studies have shown that lighted nets can reduce bycatch of sea turtles and sharks, but the idea has faced many hurdles to adoption. The batteries are short-lived, expensive to replace and raise ...

Your high-performance outerwear might be made from old fishing nets. The ocean is brimming with trash. This much we know already. Each year, an estimated 5 to 12 million metric tons of plastic enter ...

X-ray computed tomography (CT) was used to examine and digitally reconstruct net impressions preserved in pottery from the Hidaka region of Hokkaido, Japan, dating to the Early Jomon period (referred ...

His nets are fine. The boat is fine. But getting the various electronics on board to talk to each other is proving difficult. “We’ve got a lot of electronics down on our nets,” Cochran explained. Nets ...

In this video, I demonstrate how to create a fishing net using small pieces of bamboo tied together in a basket-like fashion. The clarity of the stream allows for easy visibility of the fish swimming, ...

A sperm whale that stranded on Kauai had a stomach packed with fishing nets, plastic bags, hagfish traps, and undigested ...