NOAA Fisheries has identified a new way to deliver more timely genetic information to help resource managers and fishermen in their effort to reduce salmon bycatch in commercial groundfish fisheries.

Fishermen sometimes unintentionally catch fish they do not want or cannot keep. This is called bycatch. While these fish are returned to the sea, many of them do not survive. This is a major problem ...

Julie Bonney is a longtime, Kodiak Island-based representative of some of Alaska’s trawlers — a type of fishing boat that’s drawn increasing criticism over the years for accidental “bycatch” of salmon ...

Front-runner candidates for Alaska’s sole U.S. House of Representatives seat expressed strong support for the fishing industry and coastal communities at a debate in Kodiak over the weekend. Incumbent ...

The problem of bycatch first came to light thanks to a biologist who went undercover as a cook aboard a Panamanian tuna fishing vessel in 1987. During his four-month voyage, the biologist, Sam LaBudde ...

Pollock are transferred from a fishing boat into a processing plant in Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, in January 2019. Calls to “ban trawling” or “end bycatch” in the pollock fishery are ...

Trawl-caught pollock harvested during an Alaska research survey. (Photo by David Csepp/National Marine Fisheries Service) For years, conservationists, tribes and fishermen have feuded over bycatch of ...

For years, conservationists, tribes and fishermen have feuded over bycatch of salmon in the huge pollock harvest in the remote Bering Sea off Alaska. Now, a new bycatch fight has erupted over a much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trawl-caught pollock harvested during an Alaska research survey. (Photo by David Csepp/National Marine Fisheries Service) ...