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 ...

Nov. 3—Host Elizabeth Harball talks with ADN journalists and others about some of Alaska's biggest news stories. Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts. As Western Alaska communities face a ...

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 ...

Alaska pollock, shown here from a harvest, make up the nation's top-volume single-species commercial seafood catch. Alaska pollock, harvested mostly in the Bering Sea but also in the Gulf of Alaska, ...

NOAA Fisheries scientists say new research into salmon bycatch in the eastern Bering Sea pollock fishery is shedding light on how environmental conditions may be driving encounters between trawlers an ...

Federal fisheries managers did not mishandle trawl fishing rules amid Alaska’s ongoing salmon subsistence crisis, a federal judge in Anchorage has ruled. “This suit arises from the apparent tension ...

US fisheries regulators are mulling new rules to crack down on chum salmon bycatch by the Alaska pollock fleet in the Bering Sea, KUCB reports. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) -- ...

'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 ...

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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.