The Valdez Halibut Derby is under way, and several anglers have already brought in fish above the 100-pound mark.

Now his fishing quota is only about 20,000 pounds, and scientific models predict a continued drop in halibut populations. The Bering Sea vessels responsible for the bulk of halibut bycatch are ...

Watching the halibut and salmon populations ... indicates trawling vessels in the Bering Sea often intentionally disable their devices while fishing, obscuring their activities from public scrutiny.

Norwegian fishermen settled in Petersburg in the 1800s, finding it an ideal jumping off point to pursue salmon, crab and halibut ... fishing boats to the ships that scoop pollock from the Bering Sea.

Many residents point to the Seattle-based trawler fleets operating in the Bering Sea, which, while fishing for pollock ... of pounds of various species of halibut, salmon and other fish are ...

Alaskan trawlers incidentally catch, or bycatch, 141 million pounds of salmon, crab, halibut and other species ... chum bycatch mitigation in the Bering Sea pollock trawl fleet when it comes ...

Bayes, hailing from the self-styled “Halibut fishing capital of the world ... Over in the Pribilof Islands, volcanic outcrops in the Bering Sea that are home to a small community of mostly ...

For comparison, just five orcas in the Bering Sea died or became seriously injured after entanglement in fishing gear during ... send accidentally caught halibut—a prohibited species—back ...

On March 10, the 2023 wild Pacific halibut fishing season opens ... Pacific Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, also known as the Halibut Treaty of 1923, is the first ...

“Second and third generation crab-fishing families will ... north or into deeper seas. “In the Bering Sea, Alaska pollock, snow crab, and Pacific halibut have generally shifted away from ...

The fishing industry described the cancellation as a crushing blow. Biologists say the warming of the waters of the Bering Sea in recent years is a possible factor in the decline of the snow crab ...

Melovidov, 39, grew up fishing for halibut in the summer with his father and hunting reindeer, and once thought he wanted to move off the island. Central Bering Sea Fishermen's Association CEO Ray ...