BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 14, 2014 (ENS) – The European Commission today proposed to ban the use of any kind of driftnets for fishing in all EU waters as of January 1, 2015. Rules are already in place to ...

The story's a familiar one in the US: copyright holder launches the SS Lawsuit, rolls out the driftnet, and starts catching dolphins along with the tuna. Dead grandmothers are accused of file-swapping ...

BRUSSELS – The European Union's executive on Wednesday proposed to ban all use of driftnets in EU waters and on its vessels by year's end to better enforce the protection of dolphins, sharks, ...

Driftnets are tall, long nets that fisheries use, in theory, to catch swordfish. But, in federal waters off the coast of the only US state where the use of drift nets is legal, they're catching a lot ...

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has said it will seek to opt out of a proposed pan-EU ban on driftnet fishing. A DEFRA spokesperson told us it was taking a strong ...

California is the last frontier for driftnet fishing but the sun may soon be setting on that. Known for being decidedly dolphin unfriendly, driftnets — also known as gill nets — are uniformly banned ...

The value of Bristol Bay driftnet permits continues to increase. The value placed on those permits by the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission jumped up over $14,000 to about $117,000. That's ...

Driftnets, or long fishing nets, are mainly used to catch salmon. Large sea mammals like dolphins and porpoises are known to often be accidentally killed in the panels of netting. Large driftnets were ...

In this photo taken Saturday Aug. 11, 2012 and released by the U.S. Coast Guard, crewmembers from the Coast Guard cutter Rush and the China Fishery Law Enforcement Command review and inspect the ...

“There may be a future if the salmon numbers recover but we have to face up to the reality, just like in whaling. You can go to a point where it’s just going to be no future for anybody and we have to ...

Commercial driftnet fishermen -- but not setnet fishermen -- will get a chance Saturday to target Cook Inlet sockeyes, state fishery managers announced Friday evening. The opening -- which coincides ...