BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — Before they begin scooping fish out of the ocean, many trawl nets are born at a factory off Day Road. Inside the clattering warehouse, automated looms run day and night, ...

A Chinese fishing vessel was seized by the Coast Guard for illegal fishing in our waters using a large purse seine net, commonly known as a 'ssakssul-i eogu' (sweeping fishing gear). According to the ...

The three owners of Seaview Crab Co. shelved their college degrees to take up a career in the seafood industry. At the time, they didn't know that their bait of choice would become the centerpiece of ...

Expected restrictions on industrial tuna fishing have been stalled pending the publication of a decree signed by former President Laura Chinchilla (2010-2014). Though Chinchilla signed the decree, it ...

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — Before they begin scooping fish out of the ocean, many trawl nets are born at a factory off Day Road. Inside the clattering warehouse, automated looms run day and night, ...

Washington and Oregon officials this week adopted commercial salmon fishing seasons in late August and September for six beach seiners and four purse seiners in selected portions of the lower Columbia ...

President Luis Guillermo Solís signed a decree Tuesday restricting industrial tuna fishing in Costa Rican waters. The decree is one of the first attempts to establish fishing zones in Costa Rica’s ...

FAIRBANKS — Alaska’s Board of Fisheries voted 5-2 Saturday to not approve a new type of commercial chum salmon fishing gear in the lower Yukon River. In one of the board’s most contested decisions of ...

Catch-and-release salmon fishing on the Yukon River is being pitched to the Alaska Board of Fisheries, only this time there's a big twist. Where normally catch-and-release is thought of as a ...

Kongsberg Digital concluded a new project funded by FHF (the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund) for the development of its K-Sim Fishery simulator to incorporate a new purse seine application. The new ...

The second set went fast — the 150,000 menhaden in the net not as “heavy” — that is, as frisky swimmers — as the fish in the Cockrells Creek’s first haul, farther down along the York Spit Channel a ...