Many gill net fisheries have been constrained or entirely shut down across the country, and those that remain are constantly looking for new technologies to reduce the rate of so-called bycatch.

Longline gear has a really bad reputation for bycatch: It’s one of the most commonly used gears for pelagic fishes and it has an enormous footprint. Nearly half a billion hooks were fished daily in ...

Gill nets are the most ubiquitous type of net used ... is to test the nets in fisheries that have problems with turtle bycatch, for example in Peru, Brazil, Indonesia and Southern Baja California.

Gill nets are wide-meshed nets that are generally ... restrictive measure the state has ever taken over the problem of "bycatch" -- the capture of nontarget species. Restrictions on commercial ...

“All fisheries have some bycatch if you catch anything in numbers,” said Gary Burke, a Santa Barbara drift gill net fisherman, in a May interview with this news organization. Banning the nets ...

"Elimination of the gill nets would help with the elimination of shark entanglement," Ray said. It would also eliminate the bycatch of other species like turtles and sea lions. Gill nets are ...

In its most recent meeting, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council said that funding and scheduling concerns could ...

Those gill nets, locally known as “bither,” were notorious for their high level of bycatch. Pakistan’s territorial waters are home to 25 kinds of dolphins, notably spinner, bottlenose and ...

Sturgeon bycatch in New York waters is most common ... charging the agency has failed to protect sturgeon from getting snared in gill nets and trawls. A significant number are perishing along ...

The documented negative effects of gill nets are worrying. Chief among them is bycatch – non-target organisms caught in fishing gear. Even if an animal is alive when released from the gear ...