Most every angler who is passionate about walleye fishing knows that Lake Erie is the capital of the walleye angling world.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 -- State regulators have closed much of the California coast to commercial gill-net fishing to protect endangered seabirds and marine mammals, according to a state agency's ...

Lawmakers are moving to limit the use of gill nets for fishing off California's coast. The state Senate on Thursday voted to send Gov. Jerry Brown a bill to phase out drift gill net fishing.

Members of the commercial fishing fleet dropped off a total of 1,194kg of items including nets, ropes, plastic pots and fish ...

"Two of the four male were actively fishing from an inflatable raft with what is called a Gill Net (indiscriminate net that fish get stuck by their gills and die)," Officer Markiel Curbelo wrote ...

Gill nets, fishing pots and traps are most likely to “ghost fish,” while long-lines are more likely to ensnare other marine organisms and trawls most likely to damage sub-sea habitats.

LEWISTON – Feeling crowded out of the prime fishing spots in the Clearwater Basin, the Nez Perce Tribe will experiment with gill nets and drift nets during the 2023 spring chinook fishing season.

Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) charged numerous individuals with violations of criminal and natural resource laws ...