Bills under consideration in the House aim to expand commercial access to walleye and trout as whitefish catch rates plummet.

Have you ever wondered how much commercial fishing actually takes place on the planet’s oceans? Unlike agriculture and forestry, it has been difficult, if not impossible, to get a good handle on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TOKYO (AP) — Japanese whalers returned to port Monday with their first catch after resuming commercial whaling for the first time ...

LANSING, MI — Commercial fishers say that one of Michigan’s oldest industries could disappear within a decade unless the ...

A bill being considered in U.S. Congress would prohibit presidents from prohibiting commercial fishing in marine national monuments, codifying that fishing activities in those areas must be regulated ...

The Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act is a tale of two cities. Talk to the commercial fishermen in Alaska and they will say it is working. Talk to the recreational boat tied to ...

Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the earth, but ...

Commercial fisheries have strict limits on the amount of fish they can catch. And often they also have to abide by limits on bycatch of marine animals that get unintentionally caught on fishing lines ...