The American Triumph — a 285-foot factory trawler with an onboard processing plant — sits in the Port of Dutch Harbor. (Hope McKenney/KUCB) The international advocacy organization Oceana is pushing ...

Coastal communities near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River have expressed concern about bottom-trawling vessels operating in close proximity to where salmon enter the river. But trawl industry leaders ...

The 2024 fishing season in Western Alaska offered yet another year of cultural devastation. The Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers saw salmon runs that were again critically low, with chinook and chum ...

Idaho Today brings you a never-before-seen video of the effects of industrial trawling on the ocean floor. World Ocean Day reminds us that the smallest to the most devastating actions will have ...

As a longtime halibut charter fisherman and small-business owner, I want to thank the Anchorage Daily News — and reporter Hal Bernton, in partnership with The Seattle Times and Northern Journal — for ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Trawling vessels pursuing fish are damaging marine ecosystems in Canada’s West Coast waters and could be operating illegally in some cases, and yet ...