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

A coalition of nonprofits, fishing organizations, and tribal groups are criticizing the recertification of the Bering Sea ...

The Bering Sea is seen from space on May 15, 2002, in this satellite image captured by NASA's SeaWiFS Project. Varying shades of green indicate the presence of plankton blooms. Bottom trawling is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An advisory fisheries panel voted Sunday to put 180,000 square miles of the northern Bering Sea off-limits to bottom trawling, a form of fishing conservation groups say is destructive to vulnerable ...

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 ...

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 ...