A Colville Tribes selective harvest crew aboard the Dream Catcher uses a purse seine to capture and harvest hatchery-born summer chinook and sockeye. The method allows them to release natural origin ...

Courtesy of the Outdoor News Group By ALLEN THOMAS The Vancouver Columbian Fearing eventual elimination of their livelihood, Columbia River gillnetters have ripped Washington and Oregon officials over ...

Fearing eventual elimination of their livelihood, Columbia River gillnetters have ripped Washington and Oregon officials over a program to test seines and other alternative commercial salmon fishing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Traditional fishermen have demanded a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the alleged illegal fishing practices using purse seine nets and LED lights, claiming these methods are destroying ...