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 ...
on Friday changed how salmon are caught in the lower Columbia River, a decision it hopes will eventually end decades of bickering between sport fishermen and commercial gill-netters. After an ...
Friday marks 21 years to the day that Florida’s constitutional net ban took effect. Thank goodness the prohibition on using gill nets in state waters is in the constitution, because last week at the ...
The Dec. 4 article “Gill nets depleting Alabama fishery?” would lead you to believe that large commercial fleets of net fishermen are seining all fish from our area waters. Chris Blankenship, director ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (AP) — The Pamlico Sound ...