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 ...

The Ninilchik Traditional Council has for years been seeking approval to use a more effective method for catching their subsistence allocation of sockeye salmon on the Kenai River and late last week, ...

Flounder harvest closed Thursday for gill nets, gigs and other mobile gears in waters the southern part of the state because ...

Federal fishery managers denied a proposal this week to immediately shut down Southern California’s most controversial fishery in the event that wide-mesh gill nets accidentally kill a handful of ...

MONTEREY — An environmental nonprofit out of Monterey is applauding this year’s state budget that is funding a transition away from deadly gill-net fishing by awarding commercial fishermen cash for ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials plan to ask their board for permission to start drafting a rule prohibiting gill nets on Lake Pepin. According to a Wisconsin ...

A West Marin environmental group is sponsoring legislation to end the use of drift gill nets off the state’s coast, saying they inadvertently scoop up and kill other species, including ...

CLOQUET, Minn. — A 50-year-old Cloquet man charged with illegally setting a gill net in Gull Lake was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay a fine. Ninth Judicial District Judge Jana M. Austad ...