A Trump appointee threatened sanctions on Canadian halibut exports if the country’s negotiators didn’t accept a cut to the ...

Dec. 21—A trade association representing the Bering Sea bottom-trawl fleet filed a lawsuit this week in federal court, arguing that new halibut bycatch limits are unfair and unlawful. The North ...

A federal fishery council vote Monday could set the stage for future cuts of up to 35% in the incidental halibut take of a largely Washington-based trawl fleet that targets yellowfin sole and other ...

Council appointments and bycatch policy tilt the system toward industrial fleets at the expense of food security and culture.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A fisherman in San Francisco hid fillets of salmon behind a false wall on their boat docked at Pier 45 in an attempt to deceive authorities, the California Department of Fish ...

St. Paul fishermen say their future depends on those out-of-state boats wasting fewer halibut, which can fetch five times the price of the fish species the trawlers are targeting. The trawl industry ...