Category: Swordfish

Short Sighted

Author: Theresa Labriola Posted Under: Blog, Swordfish, Sustainable Fishing Practices, Big Fish

Short Sighted – NOAA’ s Push for More Longlines Jeopardizes Long-term Conservation Gains by Theresa Labriola In the past two years, the gatekeepers of our public trust resources have been pursuing an aggressive agenda of increased exploitation that has reached the ocean. When Wilbur Ross was appointed Commerce Department Secretary, he ...

A Giant Leap for Fishkind

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Blog, Swordfish, Sustainable Fishing Practices

The following article was written by Wild Oceans president Ken Hinman for the Nov/Dec 2000 issue of the Big Game Fishing Journal.  The magazine asked him to recount for its readers the actions that led directly to the historic longline area closures enacted earlier that year. A GIANT LEAP FOR ...

Congress Steps-Up To Bring California Swordfish Fishing Into the 21st Century

Author: Theresa Labriola Posted Under: Blog, Swordfish, Sustainable Fishing Practices

New legislation will improve marine resource conservation and promote innovative new fishing gear by Theresa Labriola Last Tuesday, Senators Feinstein (D-Calif.), Capito (R-W.Va.) and Harris (D-Calif.) introduced the Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act to phase out the use of mile-long drift gillnets in the eastern Pacific by 2020 and bring ...