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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump vetoed a bill Friday that would have gradually ended the use of large-mesh drift gill nets deployed exclusively in federal waters off the coast of California, ...

Two Oregon gill-net fishing leaders asked the Court of Appeals today to invalidate a plan pushed by Gov. John Kitzhaber to move nontribal gill-netters off the main stem of the lower Columbia River.

Wow, talk about a "fish story." I've seen more substance in tales about "the one that got away" than Steve Pedery's July 23 op-ed touting the ballot measure to ban the use of gill nets by Oregon ...

The Pamlico Sound is closing to all large-mesh gill net fishing because of problems with endangered sea turtles.The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries has documented four interactions between the large ...

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. – The commercial flounder season opens for mobile gears tomorrow, and the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries is reminding gill net fishermen that an Estuarine Gill Net Permit (EGNP) ...

The Ontario commercial fishing boat ADCO II was caught with its gill nets in Ohio waters on Wednesday, the second time in a week the Canadian-flagged net boat has been found illegally fishing on the ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A Coast Guard crew found an illegal gill net with hundreds of dead sharks Dec. 24, 4 miles off the Texas coast. The crew of a Coast Guard Station South Padre Island response boat ...