Around the world, fishermen use low-cost nets that sit like fences on coastal seafloors. Known as set gill nets, this type of gear is highly effective at catching fish when the mesh snags them by ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Ten Atlanta residents are accused of using illegal gill nets to catch more than 500 pounds of fish and sharks near a major bridge in Florida, wildlife officials said. In a news ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Ten people are behind bars Thursday after they used a gill net to capture several fish and sharks at the Skyway Bridge, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

In November 1994, Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment that banned the use of entanglement nets in Florida state waters. These nets, most commonly referring to gill nets, were seen as an ...

In the waters off Isla el Pardito, where rocky reefs meet mangrove swamps in Mexico’s Gulf of California, marine biologists ...