Legal Status
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 46/215 called for the cessation of all "large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing" in international waters by the end of 1992. The laws of individual countries vary with regard to fishing in waters under their jurisdiction.
Possession of gillnets is illegal in some U.S. states.
Oregon voters will get a chance to decide on whether gillnetting will continue in the Columbia river in November, 2012 by voting on Measure 81.
Read more about this topic: Gillnetting
Famous quotes containing the words legal and/or status:
“The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“At all events, as she, Ulster, cannot have the status quo, nothing remains for her but complete union or the most extreme form of Home Rule; that is, separation from both England and Ireland.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)