Federal fisheries regulators have set some limits on salmon chum bycatch in the Bering Sea. The highly debated – and long ...
US fisheries regulators are mulling new rules to crack down on chum salmon bycatch by the Alaska pollock fleet in the Bering Sea, KUCB reports. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) -- ...
In the Bering Sea, during the summer months, chum often intermingle with huge schools of pollock. Currently the trawl fleet has no restrictions on the total number they can collectively catch, though ...
Alaska pollock, shown here from a harvest, make up the nation's top-volume single-species commercial seafood catch. Alaska pollock, harvested mostly in the Bering Sea but also in the Gulf of Alaska, ...
A measure years in the making will establish a cap for Alaska-bound chum salmon accidentally intercepted in trawl nets, ...
Federal fisheries managers approved a 45,000 Western Alaska chum salmon limit with a corridor closure for the Bering Sea pollock fishery.
A view of St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea. (Credit: NOAA) (CN) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a bid by Alaskan tribal nonprofits to force the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare a ...
DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska -- -- DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska -- America's biggest catch lands here and at nearby ports every year: more than 2 billion pounds of Alaskan pollock to feed a global appetite for fish ...
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 ...