Commentary authors Margie Brown and Mark Niver write that they see benefits to legislation to ban bottom trawling in Alaska’s ...

A headline in Under Current News published June 9th read: “North Pacific Council Bucks Critics, Preserves Status Quo for ...

The Alaska Marine Conservation Council released a report in February 2023 analyzing the trawlers’ impact on red king crab habitats following the 2022 closure of the Alaska snow crab ...

RELATED: With little movement on salmon bycatch, Alaska advocates look to Biden administration for executive action On the other side are representatives for the trawlers, who generally support ...

Mary Peltola, Alaskan Natives and family-owned fisheries ... Many residents point to the Seattle-based trawler fleets operating in the Bering Sea, which, while fishing for pollock, inadvertently ...

In line with this overwhelming support, U.S. Representative Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, introduced legislation last week that spurred reactions from leaders of industrial trawler fleets that ...

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 ...

A commentary author writes that in the 1990s, king and chum salmon were abundant. Today, that way of life is vanishing.

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 ...

Western Alaska fish, on average, make up just 19% of trawlers’ chum bycatch. And industry officials say that a cap that doesn’t distinguish between those areas of origin could actually push ...