In 1994, Floridians banned gill-net fishing by referendum vote, making the use of gill and other entanglement nets larger than 500 square feet in the mesh area illegal to use in state waters ...

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com North Carolina’s commercial and recreational fisheries brought in over 64.7 million pounds of ...

Juliet is your community news reporter covering the South Coast of Santa Barbara County. For Zack Robinson, fishing isn’t just a job. "The ocean’s my life," he said. Robinson has been gill ...

Fishing nets that glow green with LED lights may prevent sea turtles, sharks and rays, including many threatened species, from becoming accidentally entangled, a study found.

A commercial fishing boat sets nets in Lake Superior off Grand Island near Munising, Mich., May 18, 2022. (Garret Ellison | MLive) ...

You've no doubt heard about the horrors of lost commercial fishing nets, which drift through the ocean killing a multitude of sea creatures. Well, the Farallon Buoy is designed to help, by ...

TALLAHASSEE — A federal appeals court Thursday rejected a commercial fisherman’s constitutional challenge to Florida rules about pompano fishing in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A ...

The average age of a commercial fishing boat captain in northern New England is between 58 and 60 years old, says Andrea Tomlinson, founder and executive director of New England Young Fishermen ...

Commercial fishermen have been offered a "bounty" to collect derelict fishing gear, often the culprit of the death of marine animals, and bring the debris back to shore.

MONTGOMERY — An effort to lift a decades-old but only recently enforced ban on gill net fishing on the Tennessee River system failed this year, but the debate between commercial ...

Public Interest Judge OKs new tribal and state Great Lakes fishing agreement Updated: Aug. 25, 2023, 1:44 p.m. | Published: Aug. 25, 2023, 1:39 p.m.