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Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is in a tough reelection fight, today celebrated passage of his Bycatch Reduction Act (S. 4938) out...

Increased natural mortality associated with Bering Sea marine heatwaves is "an important driver" of the Yukon River Chinook salmon...

Independent journalist Craig Medred  today posted this remarkably cogent comment on his site: When you look at the data, the pollock trawl f...

Here's his opinion piece on the Anchorage Daily News website.

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, has introduced an updated version of bycatch legislation he offered last year. "I've heard from c...

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski yesterday addressed the Alaska Legislature. In her written remarks , she had the following to say regarding fisheri...

Several bills of importance to the commercial fishing industry were introduced today in the Alaska Legislature. Here's a rundown. Sen. G...

Here's a press release from the Alaska congressional delegation.

Here are a few noteworthy events to mark on your calendar. • The Alaska Bycatch Advisory Council will hold a public meeting via Zoom  this T...

The House Special Committee on Fisheries is set to receive a presentation from the Alaska Bycatch Advisory Council. The hearing begins at 1...

Here's the story from Nathaniel Herz and his Northern Journal.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office today released a report titled Federal Fisheries Management: Efforts to Reduce and Monitor Uninten...

Alaska Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola, currently running for reelection, today introduced two bills to "restrict bottom trawlin...

We previously reported how the Alaska salmon fishery is up for Marine Stewardship Council recertification. Now, another organization is obj...

Details in this news release from the National Marine Fisheries Service.

In December, an endangered short-tailed albatross was taken by a longline fishing vessel in the Gulf of Alaska south of Unalaska Island, the...

In a letter to federal officials , Unalaska's mayor says the city and the fishing industry "face a dire situation" should an e...

Tribal organizations have submitted an emergency petition to "institute a cap of zero on any further Chinook salmon bycatch in the Ber...

The Alaska Legislature opened its new session today, and Rep. Andy Josephson, D-Anchorage, introduced a resolution opposing orca bycatch.

Bycatch certainly has been a hot topic of late in Alaska. Alaska bycatch also is drawing attention from our neighbors in Canada. In a report...