A measure years in the making will establish a cap for Alaska-bound chum salmon accidentally intercepted in trawl nets, ...

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

Federal fisheries regulators have set some limits on salmon chum bycatch in the Bering Sea. The highly debated – and long ...

I saw just how effective gillnets and trawl nets were while working as a fisheries technician many years ago in Utah. The gillnets were called experimental nets because they had ...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will probably take final action on chum salmon avoidance measures in the Bering Sea pollock industry, its most controversial issue in recent memory, on ...

Short-tailed shearwaters are seen flying over the Chukchi Sea in 2016. Shearwaters accounted for more than half of the birds killed in bycatch in the 2021 Alaska halibut and groundfish harvests, ...

In a win-win for commercial fisheries and marine wildlife, researchers have found that using lighted nets greatly reduced accidental bycatch of sharks, rays, sea turtles, and unwanted finfish. In a ...

Liz is a marine biologist, environmental regulation specialist, and science writer. She has previously studied Antarctic fish, seaweed, and marine coastal ecology. Bycatch is a term used in the ...

A recent incident with a Bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus), that was incidentally caught on a tourist fishing vessel in Larnaca, received lots of attention from the media and press in Cyprus ...

Unselective fishing catches non-target organisms as ‘bycatch’—an issue of critical ocean conservation and resource management concern. However, the situation is confused because perceptions of target ...

A measure years in the making will establish a cap for Alaska-bound chum salmon accidentally intercepted in trawl nets, ...