Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 21—A trade association representing the Bering Sea bottom-trawl fleet filed a lawsuit this week in federal court, arguing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fishing vessel Gold Rush, which harvests pollock and other groundfish, is docked on Oct. 3, 2022, at Trident Seafood's Kodiak ...

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 ...

The latest fisheries bycatch data paints a grim picture, with trawlers hauling up thousands of kilograms of coral and killing hundreds of fur seals and seabirds over a 12 month period. The bycatch ...

(Phys.org) —Researchers working with the groundfish fishing industry in the Pacific Northwest have tested a new "flexible sorting grid excluder" – a type of bycatch reduction device that shows promise ...

Sometimes there's big money to be made prolonging a problem. One short sentence sums up nearly 20 years of work by the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council on trawl bycatch. Since way back in ...

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 ...

Commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang’s commentary on what the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is doing to rebuild king salmon stocks in the Gulf of Alaska is just another weak argument for not placing ...