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Long-line fishing is a generations-old tradition in the Maldives, a way of life for its people. Living in an island nation where not much grows, Maldivians sustain themselves off fish and coconuts.
State officers seized a fishing vessel and cited a 52-year-old man in Kailua-Kona Wednesday morning after receiving multiple complaints about longline fishing in the Hawaii State Territorial Sea ...
Long-line fishing has a higher potential for bycatch, which happens when other fish (other than the intended species) are caught and killed in the process.
A weight-forward fly line is simply a long line with a thicker, denser front section called the "head." This head, because of its weight, carries the fly and pulls the rest of the long, thinner ...
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, voted Thursday July 11th, to end "long-line" commercial grouper fishing. The council also changed it's policy to allow recreational fisherman, a ...
This is the type of fishing I have mostly been exposed to, where fishing boats use long-line fishing, gillnetting, trawling, and trapping.