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 ...

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 ...

The Cape Fear area is rich with saltmarshes, creeks and grass beds. These areas are known as a nursery for young fish, crabs, and shrimp which contributes to the rich fishery we enjoy.xml:namespace ...

THE Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said the closed fishing season has started for sardine and mackerel around the Zamboanga Peninsula and the Visayan Sea. Between Nov. 15 and Feb. 15 ...

MAYILADUTHURAI: Tension prevails in fishing villages across Mayiladuthurai as communities are once again divided over the use of purse seine nets. Fishers opposed to the use of purse seine nets are ...

MAYILADUTHURAI: The arrest of 37 fishers from Mayiladuthurai by the Sri Lankan Navy has sparked fresh concerns with the Lankan authorities seizing a purse seine fishing boat for the first time. On ...

The Indonesian government has exempted fishermen operating off the north coast of Java from complying with a ban on the use of a particular type of dragnet known locally as cantrang. As part of the ...

On a recent sweltering weekday morning, environmental scientist Rosi Dagit waded into the murky water at the mouth of the Los Angeles River. Leaning hard against the current and trying not to slip on ...

The Indonesian government has lifted a ban on the use of seine and trawl nets, which marine conservationists and scientists have blamed for overfishing and damage to coastal reef ecosystems. The ...