Permits are being issued to commercial swordfish fishermen who forgo large drift nets for a new system that won’t also capture whales and dolphins. The National Marine Fisheries Service recently ...

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Commercial fishing for swordfish -- one of the more popular seafoods for consumers -- has been banned by the United States in a large swath of the Pacific Ocean. The move aims not at saving swordfish ...

The federal government has banned commercial fishing for swordfish in a large swath of the Pacific Ocean in a move to protect endangered sea turtles that were being killed or injured by the hooks. The ...

The Pacific Fishery Management Council has voted to authorize fishing gear that could replace drift gillnets that are used to catch swordfish. Those wide nets can also capture sea mammals and turtles, ...

The federal government on Wednesday proposed shutting down the West Coast’s commercial swordfish fishing fleet, saying that too many sea turtles are being inadvertently snagged on baited hooks in ...

Questions remain about whether fishing interests or legal disputes involving environmental concerns will win out.

SANTA BARBARA — As the morning fog peeled off the docks of Santa Barbara Harbor recently, fisherman Gary Burke eyed all that’s left of a fleet that once helped satisfy America’s insatiable appetite ...