A U.S. federal judge has sided with environmental NGO Oceana in a case against the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) ...

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 ...

For years, illegal fishing vessels operated near Australia’s Heard and McDonald Islands. Here’s what happened after they were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bill that would ban shrimp trawling along North Carolina’s coast passed the Senate Thursday with bipartisan support. Meanwhile lawmakers have also introduced a provision to help ease the economic ...