According to a recent poll, seventy percent of Alaskans would approve a total ban on industrial pollock trawlers off the state’s coasts. In line with this overwhelming support, U.S. Representative ...

Two months after a heated meeting, trawlers are again accusing Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Sam Cotten of short-changing their industry. Gov. Bill Walker submitted nominations to ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to overturn new halibut bycatch limits on deep-sea trawlers that fish in federal waters off Alaska. The lawsuit was filed by Groundfish Forum Inc., ...

The federal government has failed to give adequate information on deaths of killer whales and other marine mammals that become entangled in commercial trawling gear in Alaska waters, claims a lawsuit ...

Members of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s advisory panel listen to testimony from a tribal leader in Anchorage this week. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal) Members of the ...

Alaska's rare coral gardens are now protected under a new federal rule setting large areas of the sea floor off-limits to bottom trawling. The new rule protects 370,000 square miles of ocean floor ...

It is still a mystery to state biologists why king and chum salmon numbers are decreasing in Western Alaska. But ask any local fishermen on the Kuskokwim, and they’ll likely tell you commercial ...

A federal fishery agency reported last week that 10 killer whales were caught in the gear of trawl net vessels fishing this year in the Bering Sea and North Pacific waters off the Aleutian Islands.

It’s been three years since a crash in king salmon populations forced an outright ban on fishing for them in the Yukon River. And barring an unexpected recovery, residents along the river won’t be ...