Warrenton, Oregon — A rare environmental success story is unfolding in waters off the U.S. West Coast. After years of fear and uncertainty, bottom trawler fishermen — those who use nets to catch ...

The bottom trawl fleet kills millions of pounds of Pacific halibut annually as it catches fish processed for markets. This ...

An investigation appears to center on whether seafood companies violated federal rules by processing accidentally caught ...

A shelter in place order has been lifted as a large fishing vessel fire begins to die down in Tacoma, Wash.Fire broke out on board the factory trawler Kodiak Enterprise early Saturday morning, ...

Early Thursday, a Russian fishing trawler with 132 crew members sank rapidly into the frigid Sea of Oshotsk, in the Pacific Ocean near the Kamchatka Peninsula. Rescue workers and nearby fishing boats ...

An aerial view of Palmyra Atoll which lies about halfway between Hawai‘i and American Samoa. Palmyra consists of a circular string of about 26 islets nestled among several lagoons and encircled by ...

Gambian crews on international trawlers fishing on the country's shores have become the accidental targets of local fishermen's anger, whose livelihoods are threatened by the foreign vessels' ...

Fisheries managers allow whitefish trawlers to inadvertently scoop up halibut, crab and salmon in their nets. The bycatch rate is relatively low. But because the trawlers catch so much of their target ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that France and South Pacific nations would launch a South Pacific coast guard network to counter “predatory” behavior, which an adviser said was aimed ...

To reduce their unintended take of halibut, vessels in the bottom trawl fleet have an escape hatch in their nets that allows ...