Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trawl-caught pollock harvested during an Alaska research survey. (Photo by David Csepp/National Marine Fisheries Service) In May ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 14—Trawling ships that over the years have incidentally scooped up and wasted millions of pounds of salmon and other fish ...

The race for Senate in Alaska, one of Democrats’ best hopes this year for retaking a seat in the upper chamber, has a lot to do with fish.  Both candidates’ records on trawling — which refers to ...

Former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola has made fishing the centerpiece of her campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan ...

Seabirds are among the most threatened creatures globally, often due to incidental mortality (bycatch) in fisheries. Several hundreds of thousands of seabirds are thought to be killed worldwide each ...

Salmon runs across Western Alaska, particularly in the Yukon and Kuskokwim river systems, have collapsed to levels that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. Subsistence harvests have been ...

Fishing data coupled with survey data useful for predicting fall, winter, and spring crab bycatch distribution. NOAA Fisheries scientists developed new models to predict red king crab bycatch ...

Feedback is needed on the following modifications under consideration for summer flounder trawl gear. No statistically significant difference in catch rates between modified flounder TED (with 6-inch ...