The U.S. is set to ban seafood imports from countries that don’t work to minimize accidentally catching dolphins, whales, and ...

Conservation groups reached an agreement today that will require the United States to stop importing seafood that does not meet US standards for protecting marine mammals.

The provisions’ purpose is to protect marine mammals from bycatch in foreign fishing gear by holding countries exporting seafood to the United States to the same standards as U.S. fisheries. The ...

Around the globe each year, more than 650,000 marine mammals are killed or seriously injured as bycatch—entangled or hooked in fishing gear meant for other species. Since 1972, the Marine Mammal ...

A new ban on seafood imports will require the United States to meet standards for protecting threatened marine mammals. The ban, which will go into effect on January 1, 2026, was reached in the U.S.