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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...

Here's a column by state Fish and Game Commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang.

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.

The Legislature has passed House Bill 117 , which includes language authorizing Alaska's fish and game commissioner to require electroni...

Here's a press release .

Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, says he added an amendment for the state fish and game commissioner to "institute and oversee an e...

Matt Tinning is CEO of the At-sea Processors Association. Read his commentary here .

The Alaska Board of Fisheries concludes its 2025-26 meeting cycle with a five-day session starting tomorrow in Anchorage on statewide finfis...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, meeting in Anchorage, just voted 8-3 in favor of a complex motion setting an overall bycatch c...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council is meeting for a week starting Thursday in Anchorage, and the main item on the agenda is possib...

Former Congresswoman Mary Peltola, a Democrat, today announced she'll challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska. Peltola, in ...

The Prince William Sound pollock trawl fishery is set to open Jan. 20 with a quota of 7.3 million pounds, says this advisory announcement f...

Read their opinion piece in the Anchorage Daily News.

A trawling enforcement case we've been following for nearly two years recently was resolved without going to trial. The defendant, Stev...

Sen. Mike Cronk, R-Tok, today introduced Senate Bill 161 , which appears to ban the use in state waters of trawl gear making "substanti...

An interesting case involving an alleged trawling violation has been pending quietly for about a year and a half in Kodiak District Court. N...

NOAA's Office of General Counsel reports this case charged in September: • F/V America's Finest — Owner America's Finest Fishing...

According to this agency letter , Trident Seafoods is applying to test trawl gear designs that "aim to minimize seafloor contact when t...

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