Serafin Fish Company receives first commercial whitefish license for southern Lake Huron in years. The license follows extensive research confirming the sustainability of a Harbor Beach fishery. The ...

For millennia, the lands and waters of Washington have sustained our peoples, cultures and traditions. Our rivers, bays and coastlines are sacred places of abundance, providing salmon and other marine ...

Commercial net-pen aquaculture is history in Washington. The state Board of Natural Resources on Tuesday adopted a rule banning the industry. The ban is a victory for outgoing Commissioner of Public ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (CN) — Commercial net pen fish farming is no longer permitted in Washington state-owned waters after a state board approved the ban Tuesday afternoon. The ban specifically targets ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The latest Great Lakes Fishing Decree has taken effect, and its guidelines for certain Great Lakes fisheries in Michigan will be in place for the next 24 years. The decree was ...

Oregon is the only West Coast state that still allows commercial fish farming with net pens in ocean and estuary waters. Under a bill introduced to a House committee Wednesday, the practice would be ...

Although the number of fishermen who make a living on the waters of the Great Lakes is much diminished from a half century ago, the region's commercial whitefish fishery continues to be viable and ...