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Seine test fishery continues after board of fish calls for more data

After the State Board of Fisheries in March said that they didn’t have enough data to approve experimental beach seines for use in the east side setnet fishery, local fishers are deploying the net on ...
Alaska Public Media

Cook Inlet setnetters turn to seining in effort to save east side fishery

Amber Every (center) directs tractors pulling in a seine net holding sockeye salmon on a beach site on Thursday, July 18, 2024 near Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLL) For the second year in a row, ...
Mongabay

In Java Sea, vigilantism and poverty rise as purse seine fishing continues

Fishing communities on small islands in the Java Sea and farther afield have long complained that large purse seine vessels are encroaching on traditional fishing grounds. On Sembilan Island, between ...
Mongabay

Java fishers struggle with seine net ban amid rising costs, falling profits

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Fishers on the north coast of Java are struggling to adapt to a ban on the seine net, with many boats confined to port after the government ceased ...