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

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 ...

The commercial gill-netting allowed in the Columbia River is destroying the salmon and sturgeon. Thousands of us protest it and by your own photos last month with the aerial picture showing just a ...

Though the festering issue of commercial gill and tangle netting of salmon and steelhead on the Columbia River must be resolved, a conservation group's plan this fall to put an initiative on the ...

Rick Swart/ODFW The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on Friday approved new fees for salmon, steelhead and sturgeon fishing in the Columbia River Basin. The fees are part of Gov. John Kitzhaber's ...

When the ODFW Commission met last week and adopted a plan that will allow the continuation of commercial gill netting in the summer and fall, many of Oregon’s anglers felt betrayed. The decision also ...

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 ...

On Friday, March 17, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife continued allowing commercial gill nets to indiscriminately kill both hatchery and endangered fish in the Columbia River in summer and ...

TUMWATER, Thurston County — Commercial fishermen in Washington and Oregon say a proposal to ban gill nets from the main stem of the lower Columbia River would destroy their livelihood, while ...

PORTLAND — The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted Friday to ban the use of gill nets to catch fish on the main stem of the Columbia River, relegating the primary commercial-fishing tool to side ...

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 ...

The Department of Natural Resources has proposed a study of the impacts of commercial gill netting on non-target sport fish such as chinook salmon and brown trout in the Wisconsin waters of Lake ...