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.

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 ...

ST. PETERSBURG, April 29. /TASS/. The issue of salmon drift-net fishing ban has been solved, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. "It was a difficult decision on drift-net fishing.