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 ...

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 ...

Jackie Watson pulled the metal tub loaded with dead fish and tangled netting of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources boat and set it on the asphalt of the Sailboat Beach parking lot at Deer Creek ...

There will be no commercial gill-net fishing Tuesday on the lower Columbia River -- or sportfishing, either. Oregon and Washington set aside Tuesdays in March for commercial fishing, but the states ...

RALEIGH, NC (AP) — North Carolina has stopped gill-net fishing in several sounds in the northeastern part of the state after five sea turtles were caught in the nets. The North Carolina Division of ...

KENDRAPARA: Around 1,500 carcasses of Olive Ridley turtles have recently washed ashore along the nearly 15 km of coastline from Hukitola to Eakakula beach within the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary in ...