According to a recent poll, seventy percent of Alaskans would approve a total ban on industrial pollock trawlers off the state’s coasts. In line with this overwhelming support, U.S. Representative ...

The trawl deck of the Alaska Warrior is seen on March 28, 2008, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. (Photo by Petty Officer Sara Francis/Coast Guard) An advertiser-sponsored article in the Seattle Times gushed ...

It’s been three years since a crash in king salmon populations forced an outright ban on fishing for them in the Yukon River. And barring an unexpected recovery, residents along the river won’t be ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to overturn new halibut bycatch limits on deep-sea trawlers that fish in federal waters off Alaska. The lawsuit was filed by Groundfish Forum Inc., ...

Most people would agree: a bottom trawler is a trawler that drags the ocean bottom. Apparently, to those who make the rules, it’s more complicated than that. Trawlers that drag the bottom between 40% ...

Julie Bonney is a longtime, Kodiak Island-based representative of some of Alaska’s trawlers — a type of fishing boat that’s drawn increasing criticism over the years for accidental “bycatch” of salmon ...

The federal government has failed to give adequate information on deaths of killer whales and other marine mammals that become entangled in commercial trawling gear in Alaska waters, claims a lawsuit ...

A decision by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to recertify the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI) and Gulf of Alaska ...

Orcas spotted in the Bering Sea in August 2023. (Courtesy Of Dustin Unignax̂ Newman) Federal officials are looking into the deaths of nine orcas that were hauled up by groundfish trawlers in Bering ...

A federal fishery agency reported last week that 10 killer whales were caught in the gear of trawl net vessels fishing this year in the Bering Sea and North Pacific waters off the Aleutian Islands.

Federal officials are looking into the deaths of nine orcas hauled up by groundfish trawlers in Alaska’s Bering Sea since May. Conservationists say more needs to be done to prevent such deaths. They ...