An investigation appears to center on whether seafood companies violated federal rules by processing accidentally caught ...

Our livelihoods are being squeezed because the massive, industrial trawl fleet has been allowed to fish with too little ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American Triumph — a 285-foot factory trawler with an onboard processing plant — sits in the Port of Dutch Harbor. (Hope McKenney/KUCB) The international advocacy organization Oceana is pushing ...

Coastal communities near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River have expressed concern about bottom-trawling vessels operating in close proximity to where salmon enter the river. But trawl industry leaders ...

Undercurrent News reporter Jacob Resneck calls in to report on the latest ‘All Hands on Deck’ Alaska Seafood Marketing ...

The recent opinion piece in multiple Alaska newspapers by Washington-based trawlers is a masterclass of spin and deflection. Trawlers know they have a PR problem and have hired public relations firms, ...

A fishing cutter, photographed through the net of another boat, trawls for shrimp at Germany's North Sea coastline near the Jade river on Monday, Aug. 22, 2005. A ban on inshore shrimp trawling is ...

Shrimp is one of the most popular types of seafood consumed in the United States. Shrimp trawling uses nets towed slowly near the bottom of the water. Turtle excluder and bycatch reduction devices ...

Seafloor trawling for prawns and scallops in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area is causing massive damage, according to a new WWF report. Cairns, Australia - Seafloor trawling for prawns and ...

The excellent April 26 article, "River herring could soon be off-limits in New Jersey," about dwindling river herring populations identifies an urgent problem that needs immediate attention: The ...