A conservation group is preparing to sue the federal government for allegedly failing to protect killer whales from trawlers in the Bering Sea. The trawl fleet in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands ...

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Federal officials are looking into the deaths of nine orcas hauled up by groundfish trawlers in Alaska’s Bering Sea since May. Conservationists say more needs to be done to prevent such deaths. They ...

The Coastal Villages Region Fund factory trawler Northern Hawk fishes for Alaska pollock in the Bering Sea during the summer of 2023. The pollock fleet’s chum take has had huge annual fluctuations, ...

Long-line caught halibut await unloading in Petersburg. (Angela Denning/KFSK) The council that manages fishing in federal waters voted last week to link groundfish trawl fishing in the Bering Sea and ...

SEATTLE — The owner of the Arctic Rose told a Coast Guard panel Thursday he has no idea what caused the 92-foot trawler to sink last spring in the Bering Sea off Alaska, killing all 15 men aboard. "It ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Large areas of the Bering Sea off Alaska’s coast are soon be off-limits to bottom trawling, a practice involving fishing vessels that drag huge, weighted nets across the ocean ...

The trawl deck of the Alaska Warrior is seen on March 28, 2008, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. (Photo by Petty Officer Sara Francis/Coast Guard) An advertiser-sponsored article in the Seattle Times gushed ...

Eleven more bodies were recovered Wednesday from the area where a South Korean trawler sank in the Bering Sea as hopes dimmed of finding any survivors among 41 crew members still missing. The 11 ...

A federal fishery agency reported last week that 10 killer whales were caught in the gear of trawl net vessels fishing this year in the Bering Sea and North Pacific waters off the Aleutian Islands.