To reduce their unintended take of halibut, vessels in the bottom trawl fleet have an escape hatch in their nets that allows ...

Headed and gutted halibut are displayed on ice and for sale on Oct. 3, 2023, at New Sagaya Midtown Market in Anchorage. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit ...

According to a recent poll, seventy percent of Alaskans would approve a total ban on industrial pollock trawlers off the state’s coasts. In line with this overwhelming support, U.S. Representative ...

U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, Alaskan Natives and family-owned fisheries are looking for a sea change in the fishing rights battle between local fishermen and industrial trawling fishing operations after a ...

U.S. Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, a Democrat from Alaska, introduced two bills on Wednesday that align with her long-time political, professional and personal incentives to protect marine ecosystems ...

Our livelihoods are being squeezed because the massive, industrial trawl fleet has been allowed to fish with too little ...

Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola’s mounting frustration with the largely Seattle-based pollock industry’s decades-old issue of inadvertently damaging the state’s rapidly declining crab populations and ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to overturn new halibut bycatch limits on deep-sea trawlers that fish in federal waters off Alaska. The lawsuit was filed by Groundfish Forum Inc., ...

The bottom trawl fleet kills millions of pounds of Pacific halibut annually as it catches fish processed for markets. This ...