PORTLAND — The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted Friday to ban the use of gill nets to catch fish on the main stem of the Columbia River, relegating the primary commercial-fishing tool to side ...

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 ...

TUMWATER, Thurston County — Commercial fishermen in Washington and Oregon say a proposal to ban gill nets from the main stem of the lower Columbia River would destroy their livelihood, while ...

For the first time in my four decades of covering contentious fish issues on the Columbia River, the Oregon Legislature is paying more than lip service to altering the way salmon are harvested on the ...

The Ninilchik Traditional Council has for years been seeking approval to use a more effective method for catching their subsistence allocation of sockeye salmon on the Kenai River and late last week, ...

NISSWA - A second day of protest actions by Anishinaabe treaty rights activists Friday resulted in citations from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Two men face possible gross misdemeanor ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - Funding for one of the best ways to remove lake trout from Yellowstone Lake is scheduled to expire at the end of the month. A three-year gill netting program, responsible ...

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes completed an initial phase of gill netting on Flathead Lake during the last two weeks of April, catching 5,232 lake trout. The netting is part of a larger ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A Coast Guard crew found an illegal gill net with hundreds of dead sharks Dec. 24, 4 miles off the Texas coast. The crew of a Coast Guard Station South Padre Island response boat ...