The Alaska Healthy Habitat Alliance (AHHA), a coalition of fishing and community groups, has submitted three proposals to the ...

Legislators are pushing for a targeted exemption that would allow trawling exclusively in marine zones devoid of coral reefs.

The Alaska Board of Fisheries considered four proposals at its meeting last week that sought to significantly change how trawl fisheries are conducted in state waters. Trawlers have been under ...

Scientists find a deep-sea coral ecosystem over 100 years old, raising urgent concerns about bottom trawling in the South ...

Three proposals before the Alaska Board of Fisheries, which took place March 17-21 in Anchorage, would require that bycatch ...

The Alaska Board of Fisheries is meeting Tuesday through Saturday in Anchorage at the Egan Civic and Convention Center to ...

Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye, checking each one methodically. Unlike most of Scotland’s coastline, these waters are protected from industrial ...

Off the coast of Brisbane, Australia, a new species was caught in a trawling net. Felipe Palacio via Unsplash When anglers dropped trawling nets into the Pacific Ocean several miles off the east coast ...

It’s said beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To some, a long-snouted, murky white, boneless bottom feeder native to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers – known as the pallid sturgeon – might not ...

Hundreds of small-scale fishermen along the eastern coast of Somalia’s Mudug region have been pushed into severe hardship ...