Plenty of fish in the sea? Not so according to Alaska lawmakers and residents who want the feds to limit industrial fishing before it's too late.

Alaskan trawlers incidentally catch, or bycatch, 141 million pounds of salmon, crab, halibut and other species each year on a decade average, according to ocean conservancy organization Salmonstate.

Alaskan trawlers incidentally catch, or bycatch, 141 million pounds of salmon, crab, halibut and other species each year on a decade average, according to ocean conservancy organization Salmonstate.

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 The years-long debate is taking on increasing urgency as subsistence harvesting bans continue and the ...

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.

Trawlers from Seattle were among those that caught orcas this year. Scientists are trying to figure out why it's happening more often.

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 ...

Orca deaths due to trawler equipment have been on the rise since 2020, with numbers peaking in 2023, biologists say.

Trawlers’ monetary losses would also land directly on some Yukon and Kuskokwim Native communities, which, through federal catch-share and nonprofit programs, benefit from profits from the ...