After the State Board of Fisheries in March said that they didn’t have enough data to approve experimental beach seines for use in the east side setnet fishery, local fishers are deploying the net on ...
RIDGEFIELD, Wash. -- Vern Forsberg and Mark Huettl move up and down the beach of Bachelor Island, pulling and tugging a 900-foot-long fishing net to shore. Nothing is visible until the beach seine is ...
Amber Every (center) directs tractors pulling in a seine net holding sockeye salmon on a beach site on Thursday, July 18, 2024 near Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLL) For the second year in a row, ...
Fishermen use a set-beach seine net in Upper Cook Inlet on July 23, 2024. (Photo provided by Brian Gabriel) Last summer, a quiet revolution unfolded on the shores of the Kenai Peninsula. A group of ...
Q: I hear the smelt are running and I want to net some for a smelt fry. Can I use a cast or seine net on the beach? A: Minnesota does not allow the use of cast nets to take smelt in any location. If ...
Washington and Oregon officials this week adopted commercial salmon fishing seasons in late August and September for six beach seiners and four purse seiners in selected portions of the lower Columbia ...
Fishermen in Lamu are abandoning destructive seine nets that threaten the country's fish stocks for eco-friendly gear in the latest push for sustainable fishing practices. Speaking in Kiunga, Lamu ...
Banning or restricting the use of certain types of fishing gear could help the world's coral reefs and their fish populations survive the onslaughts of climate change. An international team of ...