KEEHI MARINE CENTER (HawaiiNewsNow) - Ron Tam and Ed Watamura are just two of the state's many commercial and recreational fishermen who disagree with the state's outright ban on bottom fishing in a ...

You’ll get no argument from me that not only is bottom fishing on the tamer side of Chesapeake Bay angling, it can also be at times outright boring. It doesn’t take a whole lot of skill, effort or ...

More of Hawaii’s sought-after bottom fish appear to be headed to retail shelves in the 2011-2012 season. A major advisory body to the U.S. secretary of commerce has recommended increasing the catch ...

The state Board of Land and Natural Resources voted Friday to reopen Bottomfish Restricted Areas off Hana and the Penguin Banks off Molokai/Lanai based on new data on bottom fish stocks in those areas ...

Dock Totals Mar 18 – Mar 24: 1,457 anglers aboard 64 boats out of San Diego landings this past week caught 5 yellowtail, 3 calico bass, 8 sand bass, 4,617 rockfish, 1,490 whitefish, 9 lingcod, 3 ...

I'm not sure what worked me harder - the large amberjack that had me running from one end of the boat to the other or the red snapper on steroids that refused to budge from the bottom. No matter. They ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 6 (2016), pp. 2076-2089 (14 pages) Bottom-trawl fisheries are wide-spread and have large effects on benthic ecosystems. We investigate the effect of scallop ...