Many Seattle-based boats are factory trawlers that target pollock, cod, rockfish, flounders and other “groundfish” species.

NOAA Fisheries releases their annual Ecosystem Status Reports including a new report card for the northern Bering Sea which ...

A new bycatch fight has erupted over a small pollock fishery not far from urban Alaska, in the waters of Prince William Sound ...

Alaska trawl fisheries are under attack by radical groups. Photo by ErinGla ...

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 activ ...

Few food production methods anywhere in the world are more sustainable and well-regulated than fisheries in Alaska.

According to Alaska statute, “contact with the bottom is prohibited” in this “pelagic,” or “midwater” fishery, yet bottom-dwelling species like shortraker rockfish, rougheye rockfish ...

According to Alaska statute, “contact with the bottom is prohibited” in this “pelagic,” or “midwater” fishery, yet bottom-dwelling species like shortraker rockfish, rougheye rockfish, octopus, halibut ...

(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Alaskans are all too familiar ... fish sticks or scallops; fish tacos or rockfish – you are enjoying seafood caught by “trawl” or “dredge” fishing ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The bodies that were found on Monday among the debris of a fishing vessel that capsized over the weekend have yet to be identified. It might make it all the more difficult ...

An unremarkable and non-marketable rockfish has been showing up in trawl nets off the West Coast this year and in high enough numbers that NMFS notified industry to avoid them. Shortbelly rockfish is ...