The fishing vessel Gold Rush, which harvests pollock and other groundfish, is docked on Oct. 3, 2022, at Trident Seafood's Kodiak plant. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Alaskans are all too ...

The American Triumph — a 285-foot factory trawler with an onboard processing plant — sits in the Port of Dutch Harbor. (Hope McKenney/KUCB) The international advocacy organization Oceana is pushing ...

The Alaska Legislature cannot shut down industrial trawling in federal waters by itself. It cannot legislate away climate ...

The Bering Sea is seen from space on May 15, 2002, in this satellite image captured by NASA's SeaWiFS Project. Varying shades of green indicate the presence of plankton blooms. Bottom trawling is ...

Coastal communities near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River have expressed concern about bottom-trawling vessels operating in close proximity to where salmon enter the river. But trawl industry leaders ...

While the deep-pocketed trawling industry rakes in millions, indigenous Alaskans, small-scale fisheries, and the state’s ecosystem are being left out to dry. Alaskan pollock is one of the world’s most ...

A coalition of salmon advocacy groups in Western Alaska are asking the US government to impose tighter restrictions for bottom trawling in the region. Public radio station KYUK, in Bethel, Alaska, ...

One trawl official had said that if she was appointed, she would make his industry “squirm for a while.” Vanderhoeven’s reappointment is “so upsetting,” said Eva Burk, who holds an Alaska Native ...

Nine orcas have died after becoming entangled in fishing equipment off the Alaska coast this year. Only five orcas died from fishing equipment in the region between 2016 and 2020. While ...

An advisory fisheries panel voted Sunday to put 180,000 square miles of the northern Bering Sea off-limits to bottom trawling, a form of fishing conservation groups say is destructive to vulnerable ...

Alaskans are all too familiar with radical groups funded by out-of-state interests seeking to shut down sustainable resource development. A predictable cast of characters — including billionaire ...

Alaskans are all too familiar with radical groups funded by out-of-state interests seeking to shut down sustainable resource development. A predictable cast of characters — including billionaire ...