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 “Wild Alaska pollock’s fishing fleet is based right ...

The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM) was established by Proclamation 8336 of January 6, 2009 (Establishment of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument), and then further expanded by Proclamation 9173 of September 25 ...

She is the flagship of the German deepsea fishing fleet the Maartje Theadora Built for oceangoing service the trawler is out in the fishing grounds of the Pacific for more than 300 days a year This ship can process and transport around 6000 tons of fresh ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging a Trump administration rollback of federal ocean ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that seeks to open up 400,000 square miles of ocean southwest of Hawaii to commercial fishing, a move local groups see as "short-sighted" and harmful for a vast ecologically and culturally ...

Fisheries managers allow whitefish trawlers to inadvertently scoop up halibut, crab and salmon in their nets. The bycatch rate is relatively low. But because the trawlers catch so much of their target species, the unintended harvest adds up. And that's ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that France and South Pacific nations would launch a South Pacific coast guard network to counter “predatory” behavior, which an adviser said was aimed at illegal fishing, as China expands its maritime reach.