Fishermen in the Bering Sea black cod fishery, off the US state of Alaska, say an increase in orcas picking off their catch is getting so bad, some are foregoing the season altogether. That's ...

Commercial trawling for cod in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands region will look a little different next year. Starting in January, the fleet will fish under a “rationalization” system where each ...

The trawl deck of the Alaska Warrior is seen on March 28, 2008, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. (Photo by Petty Officer Sara Francis/Coast Guard) An advertiser-sponsored article in the Seattle Times gushed ...

A federal fishery agency reported last week that 10 killer whales were caught in the gear of trawl net vessels fishing this year in the Bering Sea and North Pacific waters off the Aleutian Islands.

Federal officials are looking into the deaths of nine orcas hauled up by groundfish trawlers in Alaska’s Bering Sea since May. Conservationists say more needs to be done to prevent such deaths. They ...

Lawmakers in Alaska are considering legislation that would reign in one of the most controversial and destructive forms of modern commercial fishing. Known as trawling, this technique involves huge ...