For the first time, a camera about 50 feet away recorded a group of orcas closing in on a solitary prickly shark in deep ...

A SHARK has been sighted just a few feet from a UK shoreline at two different beaches in recent days. Footage shows the ...

Approximately 50 million more sharks die annually as bycatch in unregulated fisheries, often through the use of destructive and indiscriminate fishing methods such as longlines, gillnets, and trawls.

The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission adopted the measures aimed at conserving fish stocks but it may not be enough.

How one project in Indonesia introduced a pay-to-release scheme that encourages fishers to save shark and ray bycatch.

WWF highlights new technologies to cut marine bycatch, protect endangered species and strengthen UK seafood sustainability ...

This translates to roughly 274,000 sharks per day. The primary drivers of this high mortality rate include shark finning, bycatch in fishing nets, and targeted fishing for sharks and other marine life ...

The intergovernmental body that regulates tuna fisheries in the Indian Ocean agreed to a suite of shark conservation measures ...

"However, many shark species in the Mediterranean have ... largely due to overfishing and related pressures such as bycatch. Finding effective ways to conserve them is, therefore, of critical ...

Threats: Bycatch, Habitat Impacts, Overfishing. According to NOAA Fisheries, the white shark is a prohibited species (no retention allowed) in all U.S. waters and fisheries. There are no commercial ...