Though it sounds like the subtitle to a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, ghost fishing is a real phenomenon. It’s going on right now in Gastineau Channel. Ghost fishing occurs when old fishing gear, ...

Crab-fishing gear intended to pose less danger to whales has been approved for the first time for the commercial Dungeness ...

Abandoned or lost fishing gear, including traps, crab pots and nets, along with military ordnance, trashed industrial barrels and other sea junk litter coastal and offshore waters along the ...

Crab-fishing gear intended to pose less danger to whales has been approved for the first time for the commercial Dungeness crab industry by California wildlife officials. So-called pop-up fishing gear ...

ARLINGTON — Next time you’re watching crew members battle the elements to secure crab pots on deck in Alaska’s Bering Sea on the Discovery Channel’s “The Deadliest Catch,” you can think of Arlington.

Gulf of Alaska whales that dine on hooked black cod are likely to find slimmer pickings in the years ahead. Under a measure approved late Sunday by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, ...

An ocean clean-up financed with federal stimulus funds recovered 1,367 derelict crab pots and 3.8 metric tons of line, cable and buoys in Oregon's near-shore waters. Meanwhile, volunteers with the ...