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

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

I grew up in Alaska and have spent much of my life – 43 years – fishing the Bering Sea. I captain the F/V Sovereignty, a 165-foot catcher boat that’s part of the commercial pollock fleet. From the ...

We are Alaska pollock fishermen. We make our living on the water harvesting wild Alaska pollock, the country’s largest source of wild-caught seafood, under some of the toughest conditions and ...

Cole Hockema captains the Pacific Storm, a 100-foot trawler based out of Kodiak, which his father owns. Cole Hockema has been fishing since he was a teenager growing up in Oregon. For 12 years now ...

Introduction : white gold fever -- A historical background : from an inexhaustible ocean to the three-mile limit -- Fishing the high seas : Japan and the Soviet Union develop the Alaska pollock ...

If you order a Filet-O-Fish at any of the “Arches,” the fish in the sandwich is U.S.-caught wild Alaska pollock. In fact, if you order a fish at virtually any quick-service restaurant, chances are ...

The harvest season for Alaska pollock opens January 20. The 2013 Alaska pollock Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska is 1,387,146 metric tons, 3.8% higher ...

Morris was named GAPP CEO in 2018 and has spent the last seven years working to accomplish that goal. He said consumer data ...

Pollock are transferred from a fishing boat into a processing plant in Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, in January 2019. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will buy up to $50 million worth of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stocks of Alaska pollock, a staple of the U.S. fast food industry, have shrunk 50 percent from last year to record low levels and put the world's largest food fishery on the ...