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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like a methodical poker player suddenly switching to "all-in," the region's largest and potentially most influential player in sport salmon fishing is shoving all its chips forward in the gill-net ...

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 ...

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, ...

Four men were caught illegally fishing in a Collier County section of the Big Cypress National Preserve last month, according to the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Officers allegedly ...

The latest effort to ban gill net fishing on the Columbia River is dead, at least for now. The group backing the proposed ballot initiative said it will abandon the Protect Our Salmon Act following an ...

Jackie Watson pulled the metal tub loaded with dead fish and tangled netting of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources boat and set it on the asphalt of the Sailboat Beach parking lot at Deer Creek ...