Wow, talk about a "fish story." I've seen more substance in tales about "the one that got away" than Steve Pedery's July 23 op-ed touting the ballot measure to ban the use of gill nets by Oregon ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump vetoed a bill Friday that would have gradually ended the use of large-mesh drift gill nets deployed exclusively in federal waters off the coast of California, ...

Since the 1995 net bans, anglers have enjoyed bigger pompano and Spanish mackerel from Stuart and Miami to Homosassa, with abundant recreational catches.

CLOQUET, Minn. — A 50-year-old Cloquet man charged with illegally setting a gill net in Gull Lake was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay a fine. Ninth Judicial District Judge Jana M. Austad ...

The Joint State Columbia River Salmon Policy Review Committee met for the first time on Jan. 17 at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife headquarters in Salem, Ore. The six-member task force is ...

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 ...

Old gill nets littering the sea floor are the silent killers of the Puget Sound. But thanks to federal stimulus money, an ongoing effort to remove old fishing gear has picked up the pace. The ...