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

Responses to Freedom of Information Act requests about bycatch included blurry photos and blacked-out text that conceal ...

The whales and other marine mammals killed in fishing ... Oceana from 2021 to 2023. Oceana asked for records, photographs and videos of animals that have been killed as bycatch in Alaska fisheries.

The Washington-based conservation group sought the images to raise public awareness about the harmful effects of trawl ...

At the heart of the legal challenge is NOAA’s sometimes conflicting dual mandate: to promote fishing ... off Alaska, according to NOAA data. All but one were dead. Oceana, starting in 2021 ...

Activists have sued the federal government to release images of dead orca whales and other marine mammals entangled by ...