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 ...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council is set to decide next month on how to reduce chum salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery.

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

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

The International Pacific Halibut Commission will decide Thursday whether to cut private anglers’ halibut limits from two fish per day to one — but Alaska lawmakers say the commission shouldn’t be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nine fishermen were rescued Monday from a crab boat that ran aground on St. George Island and began taking on water in rough weather. The Arctic Sea, a 134-foot crab boat with a few thousand pounds of ...