Entanglement in fishing gear is a leading threat to endangered whales and sea turtles. Trap fisheries, like California’s commercial Dungeness crab and New England lobster fisheries, are threatening ...

Two fisherman spotted the injured turtle entangled in a stone crab trap off Seven Mile Bridge in Marathon, in the Florida Keys, last month and called up The Turtle Hospital for assistance ...

(WFLA)— A 200-pound sea turtle named JP Saul was released on Thursday after recovering from a flipper amputation. JP Saul was spotted by two fishermen entangled in a stone crab trap off Seven ...

Boaters found a struggling creature tangled in line from a crab trap in Florida waters ... Now, Mischief the 140-pound loggerhead sea turtle is back in the wild. Mischief was found ensnared ...

The Chelodina steindachneri – also called a "dinner-plate turtle" – was found in the Chapman River in early January with a fishing line down its throat. The line was attached to a fish trap.