It builds on fears businesses will fold as the state government remains committed to newly introduced environmental protection laws that will ban gillnets across the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park by ...

A salmon swims upstream. (Image by Cock-Robin from Pixabay via Courthouse News) (CN) — A federal judge rebuffed a bid by the U.S. government to block Alaskans who aren’t “qualified subsistence users” ...

(KHNL) It's a way of life for many Hawaii residents, but the state says it needs to restrict gillnet fishing to ensure there are fish for future generations. Fisherman object, saying it's a means of ...

SALEM, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — An informal group of commercial and sport fishermen convened Tuesday at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to discuss gillnetting rules in the lower Columbia ...

SKAMOKAWA — When Marty Kuller was growing up in Seward, Alaska, commercial fishermen walked tall, and little boys like Kuller looked up to them. “Growing up as a young man, the commercial fishermen ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Environmentalists claimed victory following an agreement by the National Marine Fisheries Service to complete a new biological assessment on the state of humpback whales living in ...

The state government and environmental groups have heralded the end of the industry as a win for the world-heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef and its resident dugongs and sea turtles. But the ...

Two Miami Gardens men are accused of using an illegal gillnet over the weekend to catch a federally endangered smalltooth sawfish on the Southwest coast of the state, according to state wildlife ...

The proponents of a ballot measure to ban gillnet fishing on the lower Columbia River say they're dropping their effort to pass it and will support a compromise introduced by Gov. John Kitzhaber last ...

For the first time in its 70-year history, the International Whaling Commission has issued an "extinction alert." Known as the world’s tiniest porpoise, the vaquita is facing the potential danger of ...

The world’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita, remains under threat, despite the extension of a temporary ban on gillnets in the Upper Gulf of California, announced yesterday by the ...

Protesters will rally in Home Hill this weekend, before towing their fishing boats to Ayr. See what’s got them so upset. Protesters and their supporters will assemble at the Home Hill Comfort Stop at ...