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 ...

New proposals would require monitoring gear, bottom-contact sensors and salmon excluders to ensure pollock fleets comply with ...

Chinook and chum salmon dry on racks near a home along the Yukon River in this undated photo. (Photo provided by USGS Alaska Science Center) I grew up in Tanana, Alaska, spending summers fishing the ...

Julie Bonney is a longtime, Kodiak Island-based representative of some of Alaska’s trawlers — a type of fishing boat that’s drawn increasing criticism over the years for accidental “bycatch” of salmon ...

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 ...

NOAA Fisheries violated federal law by allowing corals, sponges and other seafloor habitats in the Gulf of Alaska to be damaged by unchecked bottom trawling, a lawsuit filed Monday by environmental ...

A coalition of salmon advocacy groups in Western Alaska are asking the US government to impose tighter restrictions for bottom trawling in the region. Public radio station KYUK, in Bethel, Alaska, ...

While the deep-pocketed trawling industry rakes in millions, indigenous Alaskans, small-scale fisheries, and the state’s ecosystem are being left out to dry. Alaskan pollock is one of the world’s most ...

One trawl official had said that if she was appointed, she would make his industry “squirm for a while.” Vanderhoeven’s reappointment is “so upsetting,” said Eva Burk, who holds an Alaska Native ...

Alaskans are all too familiar with radical groups funded by out-of-state interests seeking to shut down sustainable resource development. A predictable cast of characters — including billionaire ...