The State Board of Fisheries will in March consider the use of beach seines as an alternative gear type for the east side setnet fishery. The board on Wednesday, Oct. 30, accepted an agenda change ...
The board amended the proposal to remove setnets from the east side setnet fishery before the motion failed 3-3.
While a few fishermen were shivering in the raw air on the docks or in boats on Jamaica Bay yesterday, trying to secure a few humble flounders, citizens of Rockaway Beach and adjacent towns were ...
Fishermen in the Coastal County of Lamu are set to benefit in an exchange program that will see them get new and sustainable fishing gear in exchange of the destructive beach seine nets.