Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola’s mounting frustration with the largely Seattle-based pollock industry’s decades-old issue of inadvertently damaging the state’s rapidly declining crab populations and ...

Shrimp is one of Madagascar’s most lucrative exports. But local fishers and environmental groups say shrimp trawlers are harming the country’s marine environment and leaving too few fish in the sea ...

Most people would agree: a bottom trawler is a trawler that drags the ocean bottom. Apparently, to those who make the rules, it’s more complicated than that. Trawlers that drag the bottom between 40% ...

(WNCT) — One conservation group in North Carolina is taking a stand, saying fish like Gray Trout and Croaker can’t survive if commercial shrimp trawlers are allowed to run their nets in the Pamlico ...

Federal managers shut down a major Alaska fishery Wednesday after two Kodiak-based boats targeting whitefish caught some 2,000 king salmon — an unintentional harvest that drew near-instant ...

A trawl vessel sits at the dock in Kodiak this summer. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal) Federal managers shut down a major Alaska fishery Wednesday after two Kodiak-based boats targeting ...