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 Michigan Department of Natural Resources surveys the Great Lakes fisheries every year between April and November. Crews from research stations in Marquette, Charlevoix, Alpena and Harrison ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has wrapped up its annual surveys of Great Lakes fish populations, gathering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...