AN ILLEGAL 70-METRE fishing net which was discovered at the Leixlip Reservoir in Co Kildare was taken down on Sunday by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), with over 100 fish recovered from the drift net.

In the past, poorly operated drift nets were the prime culprits, but a 1992 ban on their use in many areas has reduced their contribution to ghost fishing. Today, bottom set gill nets are more ...

The method came into use following the Russian ban on drift-net fishing in 2016 within 200 nautical miles from Russia. The Japanese government has dispatched only one midsize fishing vessel ...

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Kuala Kurau Maritime Zone detained a drift net boat on suspicion of stealing cockles about 2.0 nautical miles southwest of Pulau Sanggar Besar near ...

The fishery uses mile-long hanging nets left in the ocean overnight to catch large fish like bluefin tuna, swordfish and thresher sharks. “The drift gillnet fishery continues to indiscriminately and ...