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 ...

A push to ban non-tribal gill net fishing for salmon on the Columbia River is no shock to Pete Knutson, who has witnessed several similar attempts like it in his lifetime. "You can sell it to people ...

(CN) — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission can restrict where and how state-registered fishing boats may harvest pompano fish in federal waters, a unanimous 11th Circuit panel ruled ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Like a methodical poker player suddenly switching to "all-in," the region's largest and potentially most influential player in sport salmon fishing is shoving all its chips forward in the gill-net ...

A Marin-based environmental group is backing state legislation to rid the ocean of drift gill nets it says accidentally injure or kill marine mammals. The drift net fishery for swordfish in California ...