Though the festering issue of commercial gill and tangle netting of salmon and steelhead on the Columbia River must be resolved, a conservation group's plan this fall to put an initiative on the ...

Authorities in Florida have charged 10 suspects for illegally using monofilament gill nets to capture and kill more than 500 pounds of fish, including sharks. All 10 suspects are from Atlanta, Ga.

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 ...

ONAMIA-On the choppy waters of Mille Lacs Lake, Tom Jones steers a 26-foot aluminum boat within arm's reach of a bright orange buoy. Greg Berg and Kris Nissen lean over the side and start hauling in a ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK -- "Freedom" is a boxy little boat, but it does what it's designed to do -- snag invasive lake trout, in Yellowstone Lake. Two National Park Service boats and a commercial ...

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 ...

IN LAKE SUPERIOR -- The fish appeared first as ghostly images in the translucent depths of Lake Superior. As the gill net came cranking in, it delivered the fish to a steel table where biologists with ...

Ten people from Atlanta were arrested and face an array of charges, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports. More than 500 pounds of fish and sharks were caught by 10 people ...

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 ...

Authorities in Florida have charged 10 suspects for illegally using monofilament gill nets to capture and kill more than 500 pounds of fish, including sharks. All 10 suspects are from Atlanta, Ga.