A measure years in the making will establish a cap for Alaska-bound chum salmon accidentally intercepted in trawl nets, addressing a hot-button issue that has divided the state’s fish harvesters.

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council is nearing a decision that could limit the amount of chum salmon that the Bering ...

I grew up in Alaska and have spent much of my life – 43 years – fishing the Bering Sea. I captain the F/V Sovereignty, a 165-foot catcher boat that’s part of the commercial pollock fleet. From the ...

The pollock fishing in the Bering Sea was “about as good as it gets,” skipper Dan Martin said as he steered his 133-foot trawler, the Commodore, over a dense school of the fish last month. From the ...