U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, Alaskan Natives and family-owned fisheries are looking for a sea change in the fishing rights battle between local fishermen and industrial trawling fishing operations ...

Alaska's declining crab population due to trawlers catches attention of lawmaker U.S. Rep. Peltola and scientists call on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to redefine 'midwater ...

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 ...

The trawlers are not entirely to blame — warming oceans due to human-caused climate change are almost certainly a factor — but they have drawn the ire of salmon advocates from Western Alaska ...

Western Alaska tribes, outraged by bycatch, turn up the heat on fishery managers and trawlers By Nathaniel Herz Published April 8, 2024 at 10:35 AM AKDT ...

Alaska Pollock slide into a holding tank aboard the Northern Hawk factory trawler on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023 in the Bering Sea. Each haul of the net can be more than 100 metric tons of fish.

Step aboard the Northern Eagle, North America’s most advanced deep-sea trawler, as it braves bone-chilling Bering Sea storms and towering 30-foot waves to haul in up to 200 tons of Alaska ...

A trawler returns to port in Kodiak, Alaska. Image by Ted McGrath via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Bayes called this a “bombshell piece of information,” since pelagic trawlers are allowed to fish ...

Nine orcas have died after becoming entangled in fishing equipment off the Alaska coast this year. Only five orcas died from fishing equipment in the region between 2016 and 2020. While equipment ...

Western Alaska tribes, outraged by bycatch, turn up the heat on fishery managers and trawlers The years-long debate is taking on increasing urgency as subsistence harvesting bans continue and the ...