Scott Simon talks with Arizona State University researcher Jesse Senko about the benefits of attaching LED lights on vertical fishing nets to make them less dangerous for marine mammals. Gillnets are ...

One of the many threats facing sea turtles, all species of which are categorized as threatened, is net fishing. Turtles can unwittingly become scooped up in fishing nets as bycatch. Now, a team of ...

Fishing nets are a fairly simple piece of equipment, and their design has largely remained unchanged for hundreds of years — but scientists have recently devised a clever new upgrade that could make ...

Scientists are hoping green light could offer marine animal conservationists a glimmer of hope. A new study found that green LED lights affixed to gillnets—a type of net that hangs like a curtain in ...

Illuminating fishing nets with low-cost lights could reduce the terrible impact they have on seabirds and marine-dwellers by more than 85 percent, new research has shown. Illuminating fishing nets ...

Placing lights on fishing nets reduces the chances of sea turtles and dolphins being caught by accident, new research shows. Placing lights on fishing nets reduces the chances of sea turtles and ...

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 ...

In the fishing industry, ‘unintentional bycatch’ is the general term for ‘anything that we don’t mean to catch’. Dolphins, turtles, sharks and sea birds are some of the most common animals that face ...

Researchers created a special lighting that can illuminate fishing nets. The add-on can help sea turtles avoid capture and lower the instance of fishermen accidentally catching them. The team from the ...

Gillnets are walls of netting that hang in water and trap fish. They are the most widely used fishing device in the world but also often trap sharks, sea turtles and rays who can't escape and die.