2000-09-13 04:00:00 PDT STATE -- In an unprecedented move, state regulators have closed much of the California coast to commercial gill- net fishing to protect endangered seabirds and marine mammals.

But gill nets also catch a host of other species by mistake. In California, decades of commercial sea bass and halibut fishing killed thousands of other coastal animals.

After the gill-net ban and the last fish house, C&W Fish Company, was sold in the late 90s, historic Port Salerno was on the verge of losing its commercial fishing identity.

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 ...

Tribal use of large-mesh gill nets, an effective tool that hangs in the water column like a wall, has been a controversial point in negotiations. Critics say gill nets indiscriminately catch and ...

Gill nets that trap and kill endangered sea turtles? Floridians were so fed up with the cruelty of commercial fishing gill nets that they were banned by a 1994 amendment called Save Our Sealife.

Environment Initiative to ban Columbia River gill net fishing dead for now Updated: Feb. 12, 2010, 9:15 p.m. | Published: Feb. 12, 2010, 8:15 p.m. By Matthew Preusch, The Oregonian ...

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has voted to phase out gill-net fishing on the main stem of the Columbia River, relegating the primary commercial fishing tool to tributaries and bays ...

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.

An east coast fisherman has been hit with a whopping fine and had his boat destroyed after he was caught in a highly illegal ...