Federal fisheries managers did not mishandle trawl fishing rules amid Alaska’s ongoing salmon subsistence crisis, a federal judge in Anchorage has ruled. “This suit arises from the apparent tension ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaska pollock, shown here from a harvest, make up the nation's top-volume single-species commercial seafood catch. Alaska pollock ...
For years, conservationists, tribes and fishermen have feuded over bycatch of salmon in the huge pollock harvest in the remote Bering Sea off Alaska. Now, a new bycatch fight has erupted over a much ...
The trawl deck of the Alaska Warrior is seen on March 28, 2008, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. (Photo by Petty Officer Sara Francis/Coast Guard) An advertiser-sponsored article in the Seattle Times gushed ...
New proposals would require monitoring gear, bottom-contact sensors and salmon excluders to ensure pollock fleets comply with ...
In the early hours of the morning in the Bering Sea, the fishing vessel Alaska Ranger suddenly began flooding from the stern. Investigators later discovered that the ship’s rudder assembly had failed ...
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US fisheries regulators are mulling new rules to crack down on chum salmon bycatch by the Alaska pollock fleet in the Bering Sea, KUCB reports. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) -- ...
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 ...
Federal fisheries managers did not mishandle trawl fishing rules amid Alaska’s ongoing salmon subsistence crisis, a federal judge in Anchorage has ruled. “This suit arises from the apparent tension ...
U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason heard oral arguments Thursday in a lawsuit filed by two of Alaska’s largest tribal groups against federal managers of the state’s groundfish trawl fisheries.