2000-09-13 04:00:00 PDT STATE-- In an unprecedented move, state regulators have closed much of the California coast to commercial gill- net fishing to protect endangered seabirds and marine mammals.

Commercial bycatch is the ­unintended catch of non­targeted species and continues to be a big problem in fisheries worldwide that target highly migratory species. Longline gear has a really bad ...

OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. — Eric Evenson is very, very worried about fish. Evenson, 55, a lifelong North Carolinian, says he’s been fishing since he was a 5-year-old tossing a line into the surf at his ...

Three commercial gill nets being fished in Alabama waters by two Mississippi men were confiscated by the Alabama Marine Resources Division early Tuesday morning in Grand Bay after a stakeout operation ...

The Department of Natural Resources has proposed a study of the impacts of commercial gill netting on non-target sport fish such as chinook salmon and brown trout in the Wisconsin waters of Lake ...

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 ...

During its business meeting this week, the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commisssion increased this year's flouder allocation for 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 ...

Gillnetting boats sit moored at the Port of Camas-Washougal during a previous season. As Oregon and Washington try to hammer out a policy regarding the nets on the Columbia River, both gillnetters and ...

A Virginia Beach commercial fisherman got the scare of a lifetime last week while working off Sandbridge. Vince McKaney, 51, has been fishing locally for more than 35 years and said he’d never seen ...

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 ...