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They were just looking for a bite to eat when they accidentally got hooked. Now five endangered sea turtles, inadvertently caught by fishermen off local fishing piers, have been rehabilitated and are ...

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 ...

With sea turtles at risk of extinction — and entanglement in fishing gear a primary threat, along with climate change and habitat loss — conservation efforts have been put in place to reduce their ...

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (Border Report) — Dozens of sea turtles have been killed recently off South Texas waters due to gill-netting — a fishing practice that is illegal in U.S. waters of the Gulf ...

On April 17, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation opening the waters of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to U.S. commercial fishing. According to a fact sheet regarding ...

Sea turtles are getting caught on fishing hooks at a record rate in Hampton Roads this year, filling local animal rehabilitation facilities. The Virginia Aquarium reported 58 hooked turtles from April ...

WASHINGTON -- It's a scene that scientists say is all too common: A commercial fishing boat pulls in a net full of shrimp or tuna and finds a loggerhead sea turtle mixed in with the catch. Biologists ...

Dipesh Patil from Vashi, found the turtle in Vashi Creek on Friday evening, when it was struggling to come out of the water. Two days after an injured Olive Ridley turtle weighing 25kg was rescued ...

A TikTok video of a leatherback turtle dangling from a fishing wire on a boat has been viewed 4.6 million times and has sparked outrage from one conservation group. The video, posted by the user ...