Crew members adjust the net as it releases fish aboard the Northern Hawk factory trawler on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023 in the Bering Sea. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News) Amid catastrophic shortfalls ...
Members of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s advisory panel listen to testimony from a tribal leader in Anchorage this week. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal) Members of the ...
WWF's gobal programme of work on bycatch, of which this project forms part, aims to mitigate bycatch in a coordinated and strategic manner. The programme works towards solutions in partnership with ...
Sabrina Garcia, a marine research biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, prepares to release a chinook salmon bearing a pop-up satellite archival tag (PSAT) outside of Craig, AK as ...
Scientists and ocean advocates are hoping to find a way to both protect sea turtles and other threatened species and help fishermen make a living. pniesen/iStock From 1990 to 2000, fishermen seeking ...
Amid catastrophic shortfalls in salmon harvests in some of Alaska’s rural, Indigenous communities, advocates have pleaded for a crackdown on unintentional catch of those same salmon by the trawl ...
It’s been three years since a crash in king salmon populations forced an outright ban on fishing for them in the Yukon River. And barring an unexpected recovery, residents along the river won’t be ...