Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fishing vessel Gold Rush, which harvests pollock and other groundfish, is docked on Oct. 3, 2022, at Trident Seafood's Kodiak ...

As voters consider their choices, it’s worth looking beyond campaign slogans and asking a simple question: Will Alaska ...

The spring trawl harvest for whiting is underway off the Northwest coast in an unusual year when a crucial marker of success won’t just be nets stuffed with fish but crews that stay healthy and free ...

Costa Rican fishermen are calling for an investigation into the Costa Rican Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture (INCOPESCA) for attempting to reintroduce trawling. Small-scale fishermen from ...

Sri Lanka’s Fisheries Minister urges Tamil Nadu's CM to ban bottom trawling, addressing ongoing fisheries conflict and ...

For too long, fishery management has favored outside trawl interests while rural Alaskans bear the consequences.

Bottom-trawl fishing provides about a quarter of global seafood but is controversial. The heavy nets and dredges that are used to catch species like cod, plaice and scampi also disturb the seabed and ...

THE sky is still black when Tim Maricich eases the Donna Kathleen out of Morro Bay, a fishing town in south-central California. The vessel yaws in the waves, a child’s toy in the expansive Pacific ...

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 ...

Bottom trawling is a practice used by commercial fisheries around the world in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the ocean floor to scoop up everything in its path. Previous research has ...

Andrew Frederick Johnson received funding from NERC UK for this work and currently works for Scripps Institution of Oceanography funded by the Gulf of California Marine Program. Trawling – dragging ...