U.S. Coast Guard The gill nets and net anchors seized Wednesday from the Canadian-flagged commercial fishing boat ADCO II are stored on the deck of a 33-foot boat from the U.S. Coast Guard's ...

Gill-Net News: NOAA Sued Over Whale Injuries From Drift Gillnets Off California, Shipyard Profile: North River Boats, Indonesia Nabs Elusive Criminal Fishing. Thursday, March 28, 2024.

Witt wheeled the boat's bow toward the shoreline, backed off the throttle and nudged the vessel toward a bright orange floating buoy. As Witt secured the boat in place, Glen Sutton, Galveston Bay ...

Tenders tie up at the processor’s docks, where a tube sucks salmon out of the hold and pumps them into a room-sized vat of ...

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 ...

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. – The commercial flounder season opens for mobile gears tomorrow, and the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries is reminding gill net fishermen that an Estuarine Gill Net Permit ...

Conservation groups support curbing use of the nets that are designed to catch fish like swordfish but also entangle other marine animals like whales and turtles. The nets can stretch 6,000 feet.

NOAA granted Incidental Take Permits, or ITP’s for short, to the State Division of Marine Fisheries to continue using gill nets to harvest southern flounder back in 2013, despite the fatal ...