Adding lights to commercial fishing nets can reduce the number of endangered species, including sea turtles and dolphins, that get caught in them. Just as hazard lights warn humans of danger, ...

Despite strict regulatory measures, destructive fishing practices using LED devices are causing irreparable damage to the marine ecosystem across Kollam coast. Reportedly, many boats including ...

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 ...

Mangaluru: Though the Union government has banned the use of LED lights while fishing, it’s rampant use in coastal Karnataka is threatening marine ecology killing juvenile fish, thereby jeopardizing ...

One of the many threats facing sea turtles, all species of which are categorized as threatened, is net fishing. Turtles can unwittingly become scooped up in fishing nets as bycatch. Now, a team of ...

Fishing nets are a fairly simple piece of equipment, and their design has largely remained unchanged for hundreds of years — but scientists have recently devised a clever new upgrade that could make ...

Illuminating fishing nets with low-cost lights could reduce the terrible impact they have on seabirds and marine-dwellers by more than 85 percent, new research has shown. Illuminating fishing nets ...

Gillnets are walls of netting that hang in water and trap fish. They are the most widely used fishing device in the world but also often trap sharks, sea turtles and rays who can't escape and die.

Night fishing can be an exhilarating experience, full of mystery and expectation. When will something take the bait? What will it be? Will I overcome it, or will it overcome me? If you hook something ...