Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A surf fisherman cast his line at Huntington Beach State Park in Murrells Inlet, S.C. Fishing locations along the Grand Strand.

Our oceans are full of sophisticated, perfect traps: Nets, hooks, fishing lines. Designed to capture animals destined for our dinner tables, they often catch other wildlife too. This accidental ...

As spring brings warmer air and warmer waters to the Grand Strand, it's also bringing sea turtles of all ages closer to the shore. Sea Turtle nesting season in South Carolina typically runs from May ...

Santiago de Cali, Colombia - Alternative fishing technology has been shown to save turtles while not affecting fish catches, according to a report released by WWF and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eight men gripped a rope on the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier and hoisted a 172-pound loggerhead sea turtle some 35 feet above the ...

WWF is working with one the world’s largest manufacturer of fishing hooks to reduce the accidental catch of millions of marine turtles. By producing circle hooks for commercial fishermen, WWF and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Sea turtles often get caught on hooks intended for mahi-mahi in the waters off the coast of southern Peru. The government is training fishers in ...

When vets could only retrieve two fishing hooks lodged in a sea turtle’s digestive tract, a local gastroenterologist stepped ...

An angler accidentally hooked an endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, a rare nesting animal in South Carolina, at Myrtle Beach State Park’s fishing pier last week. Only nine Kemp’s ridley nests have ...

An angler accidentally hooked an endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle from the Myrtle Beach State Park fishing pier. After assessing and unhooking the turtle, rangers were given permission from SCDNR ...