Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Killer whales surface in Alaska. Alaska’s Bering Sea and Aleutian Island groundfish trawl fisheries this year caught 10 killer ...

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., ...

Commercial trawling kills 141 million pounds annually of marine life that goes to waste, including killer whales and fish ...

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 ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to a recent poll, seventy percent of Alaskans would approve a total ban on industrial pollock trawlers off the state’s ...

Nine killer whales, also called orcas, have died this year after being found caught in fishery equipment off the Alaska coast. Trawl fisheries have found 10 orcas in their nets so far in 2023. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola’s mounting frustration with the largely Seattle-based pollock industry’s decades-old issue of ...

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 ...

THE Bering Sea is a tough, unforgiving environment. As Alaska Native peoples we have survived and flourished for thousands of years by sustainably harvesting this sea’s bounty, including the noble ...

The Coast Guard this morning rescued five crew members from the 112-foot Mar-Gun, a Seattle-based trawler that ran aground off St. George in Alaska’s Pribilof Islands. The vessel was fishing for ...