Big changes to gill-net fishing in the lower Columbia River are coming because of , a governor's preemptive action and a makeover of the Oregon commission that decides fish policies. The latest salmon ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study is based on about 5,000 striped bass collected from the Roanoke River in the springs of 1963, 1964, and 1965. The relation between ...

On May 15, the First District Court of Appeals heard arguments on a local judge’s ruling that overturns Florida’s 20-year-old constitutional amendment limiting marine net fishing. The three-judge ...

TUSCALOOSA | There was a time when Spanish mackerel gathered in schools so large along the Alabama coast that they seemed to take up acres. “You won’t see that anymore," said CCA Alabama Executive ...

Last week tons of mullet and many other species of inshore sportfish were lawfully gill netted and removed from Florida public waters by commercial boats. How could this have happened? Isn't there a ...

Water the shade of milk-laced tea chattered against the hull of the low-sided, center-console skiff Brian Witt piloted along Galveston Bay's western edge just after dawn this past Tuesday, the craft ...

Like in a recurring nightmare that never seems to go away, Floridians were rudely reminded of the horrors of gill nets last October, when a local circuit court judge ruled in favor of commercial ...

For the first time since its creation more than a decade ago, a sea-turtle conservation area that encompasses 25,000 square miles of ocean off Southern California has been closed to gill-net fishing ...

For 20 years, Floridians ranging from self-proclaimed conservationists to politicians to newspaper editorial writers to recreational fishermen have insisted that the state's gill-net ban is "the will ...