SWAN LAKE – The sign on the Highway 83 overlook touts the “large population of bull trout” in this scenic mountain lake. The 30-foot fishing boat hauling up more than a mile of gill net ...

Let the circus surrounding gill-net use end. Measure 81, cleverly titled "Protect Our Salmon Act," should be defeated in November. That's because it protects the interests of hook-and-line ...

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on Friday changed how salmon are caught in the lower Columbia River, ... Last year about 200 gill-net boats caught 137,000 salmon worth $4.72 million.

Unlike trap nets, gill nets kill any fish that end up caught in it. One Ludington charter boat captain, Ryan Bullard, says allowing gill nets in the Great Lakes could have a huge impact on fish ...

At nearly every boat ramp along the St. Johns River in Arlington on Tuesday, fisherman from all across the region were in Jacksonville fishing for mullet now that the ban on gill net fishing has ...

About a dozen commercial boats use gill nets to fish for halibut in the Pacific waters covered by the new ban. Gill nets are wide-mesh nets that are usually weighted at the bottom.

CORDOVA, Alaska — Dune Lankard piloted the gleaming gill-net fishing boat to Simpson Bay, where eight buoys bobbed in the sunlight. The bright orange inflatables, connected by lines and spread ...

AB 2220 seeks to eliminate gill-net fishing off the Southern California coast in federal waters by 2025, requires independent third-party observers on boats, and prohibits catching certain species ...

Shaffer said the trap nets, as opposed to gill nets — which have been banned from commercial use in Pennsylvania since 1995 — help him sell a better product and sort out fish he doesn't intend ...