Alaska trawler bill garners industry reaction, most Alaskans support banning them: poll “It’s kind of a massive industry-run experiment at sea to take a bunch of fish out of the ocean every ...

Industrial pollock trawlers' bycatch and ecological damage in Alaska are at issue with two bills introduced by U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola ...

The killing and wasting of non-target species netted by trawl fishing, commonly referred to as bycatch, is affecting Alaskans ...

Western Alaska tribes, outraged by bycatch, turn up the heat on fishery managers and trawlers The years-long debate is taking on increasing urgency as subsistence harvesting bans continue and the ...

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 ...

As Western Alaska communities face a shocking decline in the salmon runs they depend on, fishing operations called factory trawlers are drawing more scrutiny than ever before — the vessels are ...

Alaskan trawlers incidentally catch, or bycatch, 141 million pounds of salmon, crab, halibut and other species each year on a ten-year average, according to ocean conservancy organization Salmonstate.

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.

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 ...

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.

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason heard oral arguments Thursday in a lawsuit filed by two of Alaska’s largest tribal groups against federal managers of the state’s groundfish trawl ...