Mary Peltola's U.S. Senate campaign has removed a social media post that used appropriated imagery, including of a factory ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Killer whales surface in Alaska. Alaska’s Bering Sea and Aleutian Island groundfish trawl fisheries this year caught 10 killer ...

Broadcast version by Mark Moran for Alaska News Service reporting for the Alaska Independent-Public News Service Collaboration Trawling and bycatch have become central issues in the race for Alaska’s ...

The race for Senate in Alaska, one of Democrats’ best hopes this year for retaking a seat in the upper chamber, has a lot to do with fish.  Both candidates’ records on trawling — which refers to ...

The federal government has failed to give adequate information on deaths of killer whales and other marine mammals that become entangled in commercial trawling gear in Alaska waters, claims a lawsuit ...

Two months after a heated meeting, trawlers are again accusing Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Sam Cotten of short-changing their industry. Gov. Bill Walker submitted nominations to ...

Headed and gutted halibut are displayed on ice and for sale on Oct. 3, 2023, at New Sagaya Midtown Market in Anchorage. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit ...

Deckhand Martin Vasquez walks through a pile of fish as they transfer from the net to holds underneath the deck of the Northern Hawk factory trawler on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023 in the Bering Sea. (Loren ...

Nine killer whales, also called orcas, have died this year after being found caught in fishery equipment off the Alaska coast. Trawl fisheries have found 10 orcas in their nets so far in 2023. But ...