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 ...

A push to ban non-tribal gill net fishing for salmon on the Columbia River is no shock to Pete Knutson, who has witnessed several similar attempts like it in his lifetime. "You can sell it to people ...

CATHLAMET, Wahkiakum County — The state Fish and Wildlife Commission is scheduled to vote Saturday on phasing out the use of commercial gill nets on the lower Columbia River, except in a few bays and ...

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 ...

BRAINERD, Minn. - It is now up to 9th Judicial District Judge Jana M. Austad to decide whether a 50-year-old Cloquet, Minn., man charged with illegally setting a gill net in Gull Lake is protected ...

carries a price for sport anglers. Or, rather, price(s). An array of packaged decisions -- some not quite finalized -- await fish and wildlife commissions in Oregon and Washington when they meet and ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- By one measure, Alabama has the richest commercial fishery on the Gulf Coast, but some wonder whether it is also the most exploited. Alabama's commercial fleet brings in more Spanish ...

On May 15, the First District Court of Appeals heard arguments on a local judge’s ruling that overturns Florida’s 20-year-old constitutional amendment limiting marine net fishing. The three-judge ...

I’m writing about the three recent Associated Press reports in the Herald about fishermen held as slaves by a fishery in Indonesia. I saw a TV report showing the release of a fishermen having been ...

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 ...