In Area M, commercial vessels targeting sockeye and pink salmon are allowed to retain and sell incidentally caught chum ...

US law requires fishing vessels to be built in US shipyards, resulting in an aging fleet that is less safe, efficient, and ...

British Columbia’s groundfish trawling fleet has secured Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, which the Western Canadian province’s fishing industry said is a reflection of its work to ...

In partnership with the Anchorage Daily News and The Seattle Times, Northern Journal has chronicled the long, steep decline ...

The International Pacific Halibut Commission will decide Thursday whether to cut private anglers’ halibut limits from two ...

Council appointments and bycatch policy tilt the system toward industrial fleets at the expense of food security and culture.

A major rescue operation was underway after a packed tourist speedboat collided head-on with a fishing trawler off the popular Phi-Phi Islands t in Thailand. All 52 tourists and three crew on the ...

The horror speedboat crash also killed an 18-year-old Russian tourist TWO Brit tourists have been injured in a horror speedboat crash that killed a Russian teen. The couple, 32 and 39, both from ...

Scotland has designated 37% of its waters as marine protected areas, but destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling ...

Salmon bycatch has been a flashpoint for years. And the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, which oversees federal ...