In a bid to knock back one of the Chesapeake Bay's hungriest invaders, Maryland lawmakers in Annapolis this week signed off on an emergency plan that lets licensed watermen use small-mesh gill nets to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maryland lawmakers passed an emergency bill to combat blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay and protect the waterways from the ...

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 ...

For the first time since its creation more than a decade ago, a sea-turtle conservation area that encompasses 25,000 square miles of ocean off Southern California has been closed to gill-net fishing ...

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