BRUSSELS – The European Union's executive on Wednesday proposed to ban all use of driftnets in EU waters and on its vessels by year's end to better enforce the protection of dolphins, sharks, ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 14, 2014 (ENS) – The European Commission today proposed to ban the use of any kind of driftnets for fishing in all EU waters as of January 1, 2015. Rules are already in place to ...

The story's a familiar one in the US: copyright holder launches the SS Lawsuit, rolls out the driftnet, and starts catching dolphins along with the tuna. Dead grandmothers are accused of file-swapping ...

Despite being banned this year, driftnet fishing is still being used in European waters — and still killing large numbers of dolphins, sea birds, turtles, and other marine wildlife. With a UN ...

As driftnet fishing is a menace to the lives of dolphins and other species living in the Mediterranean, WWF is urging the EU to plug a loophole in its anti-driftnet legislation to prevent a return of ...

Driftnets are tall, long nets that fisheries use, in theory, to catch swordfish. But, in federal waters off the coast of the only US state where the use of drift nets is legal, they're catching a lot ...

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has said it will seek to opt out of a proposed pan-EU ban on driftnet fishing. A DEFRA spokesperson told us it was taking a strong ...

Driftnets, or long fishing nets, are mainly used to catch salmon. Large sea mammals like dolphins and porpoises are known to often be accidentally killed in the panels of netting. Large driftnets were ...

Commercial driftnet fishermen -- but not setnet fishermen -- will get a chance Saturday to target Cook Inlet sockeyes, state fishery managers announced Friday evening. The opening -- which coincides ...

“There may be a future if the salmon numbers recover but we have to face up to the reality, just like in whaling. You can go to a point where it’s just going to be no future for anybody and we have to ...