Mansur pioneered swordfish drift gill net fishing in the 70s with his brother. Instead of throwing out the fins from his catches, Mansur fashioned a fence on his garage deck.

In April 2013 a federal report ranked California's drift gillnet fishery one of the nation’s deadliest fisheries for marine mammals. The National Marine Fisheries Service says that, on average, more ...

“They’re wound up tight in this net and it's strangling them,” said one man who spent nearly 30 days at sea on three different drift gillnet fishing trips in December 2016, September 2017 ...

The swordfish drift gillnet fishery operates from May 1 to January 31, but over 90 percent of the fishing occurs from August 15 through January 31. “Whenever drift gillnets are off the water, that is ...

The suit claimed the drift gillnet fishery caused “excessive harm to endangered humpback whales,” in violation of the Endangered Species Act. “Humpback whales just won a key victory against ...

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 handf… ...

California Senate Bill 1017, introduced by Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), would phase out drift gillnet fishing by Jan. 31, 2023, and compensate the fishermen who used them for the loss of their ...

Drift gillnet boats use 900-foot nets that float about 10 yards below the surface to catch swordfish by the gills. Leatherback sea turtles can become entangled in those nets and die.

WASHINGTON (CN) – The National Marine Fisheries Service has issued an emergency action that will immediately close the thresher shark/swordfish drift gillnet fishery (DGN) off the coast of California ...

Aside from chum salmon, traditional drift gillnet harvests of all species were below 10-year averages, a period that encompasses 2013–2022, according to the release from the commercial fisheries ...

The 10-0 vote shuts down drift gillnet fishing in waters farther than three miles offshore, from the southern tip of Kalgin Island to Anchor Point. (Redoubt Reporter) Federal managers voted Monday ...

Alaska Department of Fish and Game managers closed the famed early season drift gillnet fishery for a second consecutive opener Monday due to poor sockeye counts at the department’s Miles Lake ...