Kodiak-based USCG cutter John Witherspoon rescued crewmembers from a disabled fishing trawler in some pretty rough Gulf of Alaska conditions last week.

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 ...

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 ...

Following a recent spike in Bering Sea killer whale entanglements, a simple addition to fishing nets has delivered positive ...

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason heard oral arguments Thursday in a lawsuit filed by two of Alaska’s largest tribal groups against federal managers of the state’s groundfish trawl fisheries.

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 ...

Orcas spotted in the Bering Sea in August 2023. (Courtesy Of Dustin Unignax̂ Newman) Federal officials are looking into the deaths of nine orcas that were hauled up by groundfish trawlers in Bering ...

Alaska’s commercial Bering Sea snow crab fishery kicked off its second season of the year with doubled catch limits – a ...

'Tis the season for even greater Alaska catches when groundfish seasons open at the start of the New Year. Pollock, cod, flounder and other groundfish account for nearly 85 percent of Alaska's total ...

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.

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 ...