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Alaska trawler bill garners industry reaction, most Alaskans support banning them: poll
In line with this overwhelming support, U.S. Representative Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, introduced legislation last week that spurred reactions from leaders of industrial trawler fleets that ...
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Environmentalist group sues to gain information about Alaska trawler toll on marine mammals
Responses to Freedom of Information Act requests about bycatch included blurry photos and blacked-out text that conceal ...
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Federal judge dismisses Alaska trawlers’ lawsuit that sought to overturn halibut limits
(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to overturn new halibut bycatch limits on deep-sea trawlers that fish in federal waters off Alaska.
From fish traps to factory trawlers — A ‘back to the future’ look at Seattle’s fishing industry
An advertiser-sponsored article in the Seattle Times gushed “Wild Alaska pollock’s fishing fleet is based right here in ...
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'We should be at the table' say Alaskan indigenous tribes impacted by commercial fisheries
The pollock trawlers remove approximately 3.2 billion pounds of biomass from the ocean annually on a ten-year average. Alaskan trawlers incidentally catch, or bycatch, 141 million pounds of salmon ...
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Environmentalist group sues to gain information about Alaska trawler toll on marine mammals
Two killer whales are seen breaching in Alaska waters on June 9, 2005. Killer whales, also known as orcas, and other marine mammals have been killed after becoming entangled in trawl gear used in ...