The Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District, with the help of commercial netters, recently caught about 10,000 to 15,000 pounds of common carp conducted during an under ice carp seine in Spring Lake ...

Threatened salmon are dying, sportfishing is crimped and an outdoor retail chain goes belly up It stinks what passes for salmon harvest policy on the Columbia River. Everyone smells it -- lawmakers, ...

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 ...

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, ...

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — Before they begin scooping fish out of the ocean, many trawl nets are born at a factory off Day Road. Inside the clattering warehouse, automated looms run day and night, ...

Wow, talk about a "fish story." I've seen more substance in tales about "the one that got away" than Steve Pedery's July 23 op-ed touting the ballot measure to ban the use of gill nets by Oregon ...

Minnesota and Wisconsin have called a halt to commercial gillnetting in Lake Pepin after some 50 mature sturgeon and paddlefish, two of the region's most vulnerable fish species, were found floating ...

MARYBOROUGH MP Anne Maddern has ruled out removing commercial nets from the Mary River but says she will support a healthy waterways development if needed. Mrs Maddern responded to recent calls for a ...

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 ...

A leading marine conservationist is strongly opposed to a proposal to amend Section 69 of the Fisheries Act to allow seine nets with mesh sizes smaller than 2.5 centimetres to be used at night in ...