The letter, released Tuesday, says lifting of fishing bans in marine monuments would place “sensitive ocean ecosystems and ...

Fishery regulators have voted to ban commercial fishing for Chinook salmon along the California coast for an unprecedented third consecutive year because of low population numbers. A fishery ...

Fishing has dangers of its own, but this year the peril is invisible. "It's just how the earth is supposed to be," says third-generation commercial fishing boat captain Katherine Carscallen. She's ...

The world of commercial fishing may seem an unusual place for prose to thrive, but it has done so in abundance for author Tele Aadsen and others like her. “What Water Holds,” her book of essays from ...

The prospects of opening up Hawaii’s protected marine monument to commercial fishing has moved a step closer to reality.

Arizona State University’s Senko Lab is studying ways to make fishing gear less harmful to sea turtles, sharks, and other ...

Jim Shaffer has made a living for years selling furniture at his family-owned business, Seifert's Furniture. But fishing has always been his passion. He grew up casting lines into Lake Erie off the ...

LANSING, MI — Lakon Williams of Bay Port Fish Company operates three Lake Huron fishing boats on Saginaw Bay and says her nets are routinely filled with walleye. Amanda Holmes of the Fishtown ...

Editor’s note: This article is part 2 of 5 of the series Changing Tides, which was produced in part through the support of the Pulitzer Center. The alarm goes off at 3 a.m., and Cole Gibbs, the ...