Around the world, fishermen use low-cost nets that sit like fences on coastal seafloors. Known as set gill nets, this type of gear is highly effective at catching fish when the mesh snags them by ...
New legislation aims to phase out mile-long fishing nets off the California coast that have entangled and killed sea life, including endangered species, by the thousands over the past few decades. The ...
The latest effort to ban gill net fishing on the Columbia River is dead, at least for now. The group backing the proposed ballot initiative said it will abandon the Protect Our Salmon Act following an ...
LEWISTON – Feeling crowded out of the prime fishing spots in the Clearwater Basin, the Nez Perce Tribe will experiment with gill nets and drift nets during the 2023 spring chinook fishing season. For ...
OAK ISLAND, N.C. (WECT) - On a typical sunset cruise last week in Brunswick County, Charter Captain Jeff Williamson saw something that caught his eye and it just didn’t look right. It was a cluster of ...
Though the festering issue of commercial gill and tangle netting of salmon and steelhead on the Columbia River must be resolved, a conservation group's plan this fall to put an initiative on the ...
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NRP targets illegal fishing, hunting in St. Mary's

Maryland Natural Resources Police issued multiple citations in St. Mary’s County for fishing and hunting violations between ...
SALINAS - NOAA Fisheries and the Marine Mammal Center say the window is narrowing to help a gray whale caught in a fishing gill ne, that was spotted Tuesday off the coast of Thornton State Beach in ...