BRAINERD, Minn. - It is now up to 9th Judicial District Judge Jana M. Austad to decide whether a 50-year-old Cloquet, Minn., man charged with illegally setting a gill net in Gull Lake is protected ...

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Four men were caught illegally fishing in a Collier County section of the Big Cypress National Preserve last month, according to the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Officers allegedly ...

Jackie Watson pulled the metal tub loaded with dead fish and tangled netting of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources boat and set it on the asphalt of the Sailboat Beach parking lot at Deer Creek ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Ten people are behind bars Thursday after they used a gill net to capture several fish and sharks at the Skyway Bridge, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

MONTEREY — An environmental nonprofit out of Monterey is applauding this year’s state budget that is funding a transition away from deadly gill-net fishing by awarding commercial fishermen cash for ...

OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. — Eric Evenson is very, very worried about fish. Evenson, 55, a lifelong North Carolinian, says he’s been fishing since he was a 5-year-old tossing a line into the surf at his ...

In November 1994, Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment that banned the use of entanglement nets in Florida state waters. These nets, most commonly referring to gill nets, were seen as an ...

There's a new dog in the fight to rid the Columbia River of gill-nets. ... and curb over-harvest of salmon and other fish at sea, and perhaps flex some muscle over the growing concern about offshore ...

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 ...