In terms of fishing, using whale-safe gear and implementing regulations to reduce bycatch is vital. Collaboration between fisheries and conservation groups can help find solutions to minimize the ...

These animals are unintentional “bycatch” of commercial fisheries and either drown or are tossed overboard to die from their injuries. Bycatch is the greatest conservation threat to marine mammal ...

WWF believes it preferable, and of greater potential conservation to cetaceans, to now address all of the threats to cetacean populations, particularly that of bycatch. In 2003 scientists from the U.S ...

Scientists have revealed the cause of death for the small minke whale that was trapped for several days in a Long Beach harbor earlier this month, according to media reports. Officials from the ...

A sick, starved pilot whale had to be euthanized after washing up on the beach in Sea Bright on Wednesday, officials said. The 15-foot, long-finned, male whale was first spotted struggling in the ...

Those in the Savannah area were part of a unique but tragic scene. A sperm whale was beached on the shore of Hilton Head Island over the weekend. Why did this happen and what do we know?

For nearly a week, families and eager marine life enthusiasts visited Long Beach's Rainbow Harbor after a minke whale was spotted in and around Catallina Landing. "We spotted it in multiple areas ...

The intergovernmental body that regulates tuna fisheries in the Indian Ocean agreed to a suite of shark conservation measures, including rules to curb shark finning and the use of gear that causes ...