The Matlacha/Pine Island Fire Control District, with help from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Marine Mammal Rescue team, rescued a dolphin on Sept. 17, 2026. The dolphin was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department track adult finfish populations with the help of gill net sampling. That sampling program has ...

A 500-foot illegal gill net was removed from the Gulf of Mexico near Sanibel, Florida. Rescuers freed a live manatee, several rays, and other fish trapped in the discarded net. The use of gill nets ...

Maryland lawmakers passed a bill to manage the invasive blue catfish population in the Chesapeake Bay. The bill extends one pilot program and introduces another using gill nets to help curb the ...

Wildlife officials recently removed a 500-foot illegal gill net from the waters of Southwest Florida. Gill nets, which indiscriminately kill marine life, were banned in Florida by a 1995 ...