The Alaska Legislature cannot shut down industrial trawling in federal waters by itself. It cannot legislate away climate ...

Dec. 21—A trade association representing the Bering Sea bottom-trawl fleet filed a lawsuit this week in federal court, arguing that new halibut bycatch limits are unfair and unlawful. The North ...

Thru various entities I participate in, I get to talk to various people. Some might say some of these people are "important." I ask some of these people about Yukon ...

The fishing vessel Gold Rush, which harvests pollock and other groundfish, is docked on Oct. 3, 2022, at Trident Seafood's Kodiak plant. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Alaskans are all too ...

A recent opinion column in multiple Alaska newspapers by Washington-based trawlers (“We’re Alaska pollock fishermen. Here’s the truth about our fishery.” ADN, Aug. 10) is a master class of spin and ...

A version of this story originally appeared at the environmental news site Mongabay by staff writer Elizabeth Claire Alberts. Follow her on Twitter @ECAlberts. The disappearance of billions of snow ...

Video: This array was towed across trawl tracks to test the effectiveness of trawl changes to reduce adverse effects to benthic animals and habitat. (Credit: NOAA Fisheries and North Pacific Research ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT: Unintended mortality in longlines emerged in the early 1990s as one of the most important threats for pelagic seabirds worldwide.

Fisheries managers allow whitefish trawlers to inadvertently scoop up halibut, crab and salmon in their nets. The bycatch rate is relatively low. But because the trawlers catch so much of their target ...

Up to 50 kilos of fish caught in Brazil are thrown away for every kilo that arrives on land; more than 400,000 tons of marine life were discarded between 2000 and 2018 in just four states. Less than ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Louis Daniel and Jack Travelsted A flotilla of about a dozen shrimp trawlers ...

Bottom trawling is a practice used by commercial fisheries around the world in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the ocean floor to scoop up everything in its path. Previous research has ...