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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a new dog in the fight to rid the Columbia River of gill-nets. ... and curb over-harvest of salmon and other fish at sea, and perhaps flex some muscle over the growing concern about offshore ...

Lawmakers are moving to limit the use of gill nets for fishing off California's coast. The state Senate on Thursday voted to send Gov. Jerry Brown a bill to phase out drift gill net fishing.

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 ...