SALEM — A group of state legislators from the Oregon Coast are voicing support for a controversial decision by the state’s Fish and Wildlife Commission to maintain commercial gillnetting along the ...

LEWISTON, Idaho — Sport anglers upset with the Nez Perce Tribe in northern Idaho for opening a gillnetting season on the Snake and Clearwater rivers say they are considering protests and boycotts of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Proposed legislation that would curb gillnetting on the lower Columbia River is picking at a sore point that has divided commercial and sport fishermen on the river for decades.

Minnesota and Wisconsin have called a halt to commercial gillnetting in Lake Pepin after some 50 mature sturgeon and paddlefish, two of the region's most vulnerable fish species, were found floating ...

Many of us care deeply about the recovery of Pacific salmon. While the costly and complex idea of breaching the four Snake River dams has grown in popularity, it is important to remember that ...