The Bering Sea trawl sector, valued at about $2 billion, catches more chum salmon as bycatch than subsistence fishermen ...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) has advanced a set of five alternatives for reducing chum salmon bycatch ...

The issue pits a multibillion-dollar industry against Western Alaska subsistence communities struggling with record-low salmon returns — with climate change playing a pivotal role.

Conservation advocacy group Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC) plans to sue NOAA Fisheries after the agency missed deadlines for responding to its petition seeking Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections ...

We need to craft our approach to specifically addressing minimizing Western Alaska chum salmon, taking into account those times and areas of when they occur’ — Trent Hartill, American Seafoods ...

Federal fishery managers took steps on Tuesday to impose new rules to prevent Alaska chum salmon from being scooped into nets ...

which he described as “a marauding band of fishing trawlers that come through and strip fish and then dump garbage and plastic all over the ocean.” Under the presidency of Joe Biden ...

I've been fishing these waters since I was knee-high and the markets are as good as ever,' he told me, hacking foot-thick ice from the deck of his trawler before putting out to sea. 'We don't need ...

"The puzzle is why we have such high death numbers this year." Experts sound the alarm after finding thousands of turtles ...

And they couldn't help but be awed by the impressive buildup of the bottomfish fleet of trawlers and catcher/processors off Alaska. They could talk to the North Pacific Fishing Vessel Owners ...

THOOTHUKUDI: Urging the district administration to permit multi-day fishing for mechanised vessel trawlers, associated fishermen and vessel owners took the issue to the roads, condemning the ...

A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more ...