Harbor porpoises have rebounded in a big way off California. Their populations have recovered dramatically since the end of state set-gillnet fisheries that years ago entangled and killed them in the ...

Unchecked gillnetting has pushed the world’s smallest porpoise to the brink of extinction: there are roughly 10 vaquitas remaining in the Gulf of California in Mexico. However, they retain enough ...

Gillnetters repair a net in Astoria, Ore. A bill before the Washington Senate would eliminate nontribal gillnetting on the lower Columbia River. Files/The Columbian Now equipped with Washington Gov.

The vaquita is the rarest, smallest and most endangered cetacean in the world. It’s estimated that fewer than 100 of the small porpoises remain in their wild habitat in Mexico’s northern Gulf of ...

ILLEGAL gillnetting is huge problem in the country with conservancies and other non-profit environmental watchdogs battling in assisting the Department of Agriculture and Forestry and Fisheries curb ...

The police dismantle an illegal gillnetting setup in Umgababa. PHOTO: Supplied. ON AUGUST 4, a joint operation by the police and the Coastal Marine Task Force (CMTF) disrupted illegal gillnetting ...

The vaquita, a small porpoise found only in the Gulf of California, is rapidly going extinct, an international team of scientists reported earlier this month. The researchers say that the marine ...

The Utah Department of Wildlife Resources has begun gillnetting at Strawberry Reservoir to determine the reservoir's ecological status. Gillnetting is a research practice in which nets are placed in ...

In a recent state report about the biggest lake trout ever taken from Round Valley Reservoir, the most intriguing sentence, from an angler perspective, came at the end of the first paragraph. After ...

Do Spokane River pike vanish? If non-native northern pike have successfully traveled the Clark Fork and Pend Oreille rivers to spread all the way to the Columbia River in alarming numbers, why hasn’t ...

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KTIV) - Staff at the Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery wrapped up their annual gillnetting process this week. Gillnetting is the process of collecting eggs from Walleye, Northern Pike, and ...

It’s just before 8 a.m. on August 6 when the boat reaches the first gillnet of the day. I’m on Swan Lake volunteering with a recently revived effort to knock down the lake’s invasive lake trout ...