European Union subsidies totalling 1.4 billion euros (dollars) a year will doom the fishing industry unless halted soon, the conservation body WWF-International said.

Conservation officers and news crews in helicopters were searching for a whale tangled in fishing lines late yesterday off the coast of Western Australia. <

A lot of “It Happens Today” calendars list December 10 as the day the Inuit people of Alaska celebrate the Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales.

A young killer whale put on quite a show at Marineland when it jumped out of its tank. Full Story

Gillnet fishing will be banned in federal waters off much of the Mid-Atlantic coast during most or all of the year to protect migrating sea turtles, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has announced.

Thousands of dolphins, particularly baby dolphins, are still dying in tuna nets in the eastern tropical Pacific, finds a report prepared by the National Marine Fisheries Service and released by the Earth Island Institute.

More ice melted from the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet this year than ever before recorded, report scientists from the University of Colorado. The same team found that the extent of Arctic sea ice reached the lowest level in the satellite record in 2

Killer whales, fishing gear, illegal shootings, harvesting by Alaska natives, or some combination of these – rather than a diminished food supply – appear to be the main reasons for the continuing population decline of Steller sea lions off the coast of A

From environmental activists to old whalers eager to resume their trade, Iceland’s announcement that it will start whaling again has upset the whole country.

Thirty years of diving has provided me with many encounters with dolphins but nothing to compare with what I witnessed while walking the beach at White Strand, just north of Killary harbour, last September. Weather-wise, it was one of those days! The sea was like a mill pond and crystal clear. A few miles out

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