The pollock trawl fishery has faced increasing criticism for its perceived role in Alaska’s salmon crash.
"salmon bycatch"
With little movement on salmon bycatch, Alaska advocates look to Biden administration for executive action
The move comes amid catastrophic shortfalls in salmon harvests in some of Alaska’s rural, Indigenous communities.
Alaska pollock trawlers are feeling pressure over salmon bycatch. This reporter went to see for himself
Fisheries reporter Hal Bernton visited a Bering Sea factory trawler to see how its crew caught and processed pollock — and how the captain works to keep salmon bycatch low.
On the Yukon, Alaska and Canada are bound together by salmon – and their collapse
Communities along the upper Yukon, stretching deep into Canada, have borne the brunt of the salmon collapse, in part because only a fraction of the fish make it that far upriver.
Dunleavy again vetoes research project on salmon bycatch
Dunleavy vetoed the project last year, too.
House candidates agree bycatch is a problem. They have different approaches to solving it
When asked what they would do to address declining salmon stocks, all candidates pointed to bycatch as a continued threat to salmon and crab across the state.
Former Y-K Delta lawmaker Mary Peltola is running for Alaska’s US House seat
Peltola served in the state House from 1999 until 2009. For the last five years, she’s led the Kuskokwim River Inter Tribal Fish Commission.
US and Russian scientists are still working together to solve salmon mysteries
Scientists are hoping to map out the distribution of salmon across the North Pacific using new DNA techniques.
Tribal groups petition federal government to eliminate or limit Bering Sea salmon bycatch
The tribal groups signing the petition mostly represent areas of Alaska where salmon runs have crashed or declined dramatically in recent years.
Kuskokwim River working group tackles trawler salmon bycatch
It is still a mystery to state biologists why king and chum salmon numbers are decreasing in Western Alaska. But ask any local fishermen on the Kuskokwim, and they’ll likely tell you commercial fishing trawlers in the Bering Sea are the problem.