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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CATHLAMET, Wahkiakum County — The state Fish and Wildlife Commission is scheduled to vote Saturday on phasing out the use of commercial gill nets on the lower Columbia River, except in a few bays and ...

Territory fishing chiefs are fighting to defend NT's 'barra capital' crown as Queensland's Rockhampton threatens to steal the ...

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is giving commercial fishermen a little more time to make their catches of the day by opening up the commercial netting season on False ...

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 ...

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 Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission held a series of meetings at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver from Thursday through Saturday to receive a report from state staff on the Columbia River Basin ...