Fishermen working off the coast of Massachusetts pulled a decomposing body up with their fishing nets Friday, officials announced Sunday. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said that ...

Conservationists blame the uncontrolled use of fishing nets and increased tourism during the turtle nesting period to have played a key role in the incident. The olive ridley’s main nesting ...

On Feb. 26, students were out on Lake Pennesewassee in Norway. OXFORD HILLS — Roland Godbout, Career and Technical Education Law Enforcement instructor for Oxford Hills Technical School, doesn ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Teams of sea rescuers and wildlife experts on Wednesday successfully freed a whale that got caught in fishing nets near a popular Baltic Sea resort in Poland. It took about ...

Large volumes of fish and other marine life are routinely caught in bottom-trawl nets used to sweep the seabed. Charities say the unintended bycatch is a particular problem in prawn trawl fishery ...

Teams of sea rescuers and wildlife experts successfully freed a whale that got caught in fishing nets near a popular Baltic Sea resort in Poland. It took about an hour for the rescuers to cut and ...

Sea rescuers approach a whale that got caught in fishing nets off the Baltic Sea beach near Miedzyzdroje, Poland (Maritime Search and Rescue Service via AP) Teams of sea rescuers and wildlife ...

Photo from Sebstian Kluska A humpback whale was rescued after becoming entangled in fishing nets in the Baltic Sea — an unusual place for the species to be found. The ensnared marine mammal was ...

The unusual discovery of a ghost net — a lost or dumped fishing net drifting through the ocean — washed up near Albany sparks ...