A hybrid snow-Tanner crab. (NOAA Fisheries/Leah Zacher) A population of once-rare hybrid crabs has surged to record numbers, ...

Trawlers targeting flatfish in the Bering Sea deployed underwater web fences this summer to try to keep killer whales from getting entangled in their nets pulled along the ocean bottom. During a ...

The nets for Alaska's massive pollock fishery also catch salmon and other marine life ...

As salmon runs collapse across western Alaska, Indigenous communities and smaller commercial fishers say they are bearing the ...

Climate reporter Annika Hammerschlag spent days on a trawling boat in the Bering Sea to develop an immersive, visually stunning package on how a heated ...

A federal judge in Alaska has dismissed a legal challenge filed by the Bering Sea bottom-trawl fleet against stricter halibut bycatch limits. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council approved a ...

Federal fisheries managers did not mishandle trawl fishing rules amid Alaska’s ongoing salmon subsistence crisis, a federal judge in Anchorage has ruled. “This suit arises from the apparent tension ...

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A subadult fur seal is hauled out on St. Paul Island in 2007. About two-thirds of the world’s northern fur seal population uses the Pribilofs for breeding. A conservation group sued federal fisheries ...

The U.S. Coast Guard and the Seattle-based American Seafoods Company (ASC) have launched a public dispute over how to count the pollock aboard a factory trawler in the Bering Sea. The Coast Guard ...

The gear that allows fishers to harvest large quantities at once can also catch unwanted marine life and harm seafloor ecosystems.