Funded with $1 million from the Louisiana Legislature and overseen by the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission, the LGL study found menhaden harvesting unintentionally caught an estimated 145 ...

A closely watched study of how many redfish and other species the industrial menhaden industry nets and ultimately kills off ...

“The study reaffirms what decades of science have consistently shown: Louisiana’s Gulf menhaden fishery is sustainable, ...

At the July Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission meeting, LGL Ecological Research Associates presented the results of ...

A new study on bycatch in Louisiana's commercial menhaden fishery is largely being welcomed by the state's fishing industry, ...

Bycatch for the future. The latest Fisheries Economics of the United States Report, from 2022, revealed that the U.S. commercial and recreational saltwater fishing industry generated $321 billion ...

A marine animal caught unintentionally by commercial fishing gear is known as bycatch. Dolphins trapped in nets targeting tuna, sea turtles swept up in shrimp trawls and terrapins caught in crab ...

Conservation and environmental groups will finally get the results of the first independent study on bycatch involving the ...

The trawl fleet is allowed a bycatch of 18,316 salmon but 19,486 Chinook were accidentally caught, Fair said. Captains shut the fishery down voluntarily when they realized the big accidental haul ...

Inland, gray squirrels at a bird feeder are also bycatch, as are other visitors. I scatter sunflower seeds for our avian ground feeders, which this year include dozens of robins.