Nearly one-third of sharks are threatened with extinction, mostly due to fishing. While mandated releases are helpful, researchers discovered that they aren't enough to stabilize shark populations.

If you’re fishing off the side of a boat in Cape Cod Bay, be on the lookout! Fishermen recently learned that when a great white shark suddenly appeared, and chomped on a striped bass that was on their ...

It's already illegal for fishermen to attract or capture a great white shark, but Bay State officials are proposing new rules to better restrict shore-based shark fishing after anglers were seen ...

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Alan Yu, was originally published by WHYY. At an ...

More than 132 feet below sea level, a diver was removing abandoned fishing nets from a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea when he had an encounter that would be the stuff of many people’s nightmares.

Saltwater fishing action up and down our mid-Atlantic coast has lately been as hot as the weather with back bay, inshore, and ...

El Niño climate phenomenon heating waters off Mexico but incidents with humans remain a rarity ...

Despite the fear they may inspire in humans, sharks have far more reason to fear us. Nearly one-third of sharks are threatened with extinction globally, mostly as a result of fishing. A team led by ...