Drift gill nets, fiercely contested fishing gear used to snag swordfish and thresher sharks in deep waters off Southern California, would be largely banned under legislation authored by a South ...

In 2015, 18 drift gill net vessels landed 66 metric tons of swordfish worth $454,000, according to a report by NOAA — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

What’s worse: If drift gill nets are lost at sea, they continue fishing until they sink or fall apart. Fortunately, drift gill nets have been going the way of the dinosaur for some time now. The ...

But drift gill net fishermen say depictions and statements in the online footage are misleading. Pointing to federal data, they say far fewer animals are killed than implied by activists intent ...

Drift gill nets can stretch a mile long, roughly the span of the entire Golden Gate Bridge. The fishing gear is typically about a 100 feet tall.

Drift gill nets can be 1 mile long, and although they are intended to catch swordfish, they can accidentally kill sea turtles, whales, dolphins and sea lions. Skip to content.

The drift gill net fishery for swordfish began off the coast of Southern California in the late 1970s and quickly grew into one of the major commercial fleets in the state.

But drift gill net fishermen say depictions and statements in the online footage are misleading. Pointing to federal data, they say far fewer animals are killed than implied by activists intent ...

Lawmakers are moving to limit the use of gill nets for fishing off California's coast. The state Senate on Thursday voted to send Gov. Jerry Brown a bill to phase out drift gill net fishing ...

LEWISTON – Feeling crowded out of the prime fishing spots in the Clearwater Basin, the Nez Perce Tribe will experiment with gill nets and drift nets during the 2023 spring chinook fishing season.

Federal fishery managers denied a proposal this week to immediately shut down Southern California’s most controversial fishery in the event that wide-mesh gill nets accidentally kill a handful ...