Deep-sea fishing trawlers are never described as glamorous. They’re traditionally forward-heavy vessels built with ramps at the stern for hauling heavy catches onto the working aft deck. On the ...
Council appointments and bycatch policy tilt the system toward industrial fleets at the expense of food security and culture.
A shelter in place order has been lifted as a large fishing vessel fire begins to die down in Tacoma, Wash.Fire broke out on board the factory trawler Kodiak Enterprise early Saturday morning, ...
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 ...
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, a federal body, manages commercial trawlers in the Bering Sea. The Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission wrote a letter to the council with two ...
Former Grimsby trawlerman Tony Roach tells of his lifelong connection with the sea.
On Cambodia’s coast, fish catches have dropped precipitously in recent years, and so have small-scale fishers’ incomes. Small-scale fishers say commercial trawlers have been illegally entering their ...
As a fishery analyst for the Aleutians East Borough, I am uniquely positioned at the busy intersection where fishermen, fishing communities, processors, managers, researchers and policymakers all meet ...
In the absence of a deal, industrial trawlers were allowed this season to essentially fish anywhere at any time, including in smaller habitats preferred by whales, penguins and seals. In one hot spot, ...
Caution has been issued against foreign trawlers seeking to take advantage of the six months of prawn fishing along the shallow Coastal waters of Kilifi, Tana River, and Lamu. Trawlers are large boats ...