In the early hours of the morning in the Bering Sea, the fishing vessel Alaska Ranger suddenly began flooding from the stern. Investigators later discovered that the ship’s rudder assembly had failed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Killer whales surface in Alaska. Alaska’s Bering Sea and Aleutian Island groundfish trawl fisheries this year caught 10 killer ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaska pollock, shown here from a harvest, make up the nation's top-volume single-species commercial seafood catch. Alaska pollock ...

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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, ...

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.

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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 ...