A measure years in the making will establish a cap for Alaska-bound chum salmon accidentally intercepted in trawl nets, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Strips of chum salmon hang on a drying rack on Aug. 22, 2007. (Photo by S.Zuray/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Strips of chum ...

Federal fisheries regulators have set some limits on salmon chum bycatch in the Bering Sea. The highly debated – and long awaited – decision aims to protect declining salmon stocks while minimizing ...

The largest commercial fishing industry in the Gulf of Mexico is accidentally killing and discarding more than 22,000 redfish annually in Louisiana waters, according to an independent study released ...

NEWPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) – Rates of Chinook salmon bycatch in the Pacific hake fishery rise during years when ocean temperatures are warmer, a signal that climate change and increased frequency of marine ...

In his recent opinion piece, Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Doug Vincent- Lang painted a rather rosy picture of all the actions that the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is currently ...

I saw just how effective gillnets and trawl nets were while working as a fisheries technician many years ago in Utah. The gillnets were called experimental nets because they had different-sized mesh ...

Crew members adjust the net as it releases fish aboard the Northern Hawk factory trawler on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023 in the Bering Sea. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News) Amid catastrophic shortfalls ...

A measure years in the making will establish a cap for Alaska-bound chum salmon accidentally intercepted in trawl nets, ...