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.

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 ...

The Alaska Juris, a 218-foot trawler, also is home-ported in Seattle. Both vessels routinely operate out of Dutch Harbor. On Sunday, a Coast Guard search was suspended for another man, ...

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 ...

The Coast Guard in Alaska continued searching the waters west of Dutch Harbor Tuesday for a man who fell overboard Monday from the Seattle-based commercial fishing vessel Alaska Warrior.