As many of you know, some species of marine mammals and birds have been declining in the Bering Sea and some people believe that too much fishing is the cause of the declines. That is the topic of ...

Previously, we cooperated with Russia on closing the Bering Sea ‘donut hole’ to unregulated foreign fishing, banning high seas drift nets, joint salmon fisheries research in the Gulf of Alaska ...

James Brooks Alaska Beacon Federal fisheries managers did not mishandle trawl fishing rules amid Alaska ... in 2023 over its ...

According to the Service, the study is intended to provide data that “will inform possible future management” of fisheries in the area, meaning it could open to bottom-trawl fishing as the Bering Sea ...

ANCHORAGE ALASKA—Fishermen off the coast of Alaska’s Bering Sea last year caught a record two million metric tons of cod, flounder, and other bottomfish, nearly 50% more than the harvest of a decade ...