The federal panel that oversees commercial and subsistence fishing in Alaska is putting a hard limit on the number of chum salmon that are caught — and wasted — by commercial pollack trawlers. It is a ...

A new poll shows a majority of New Zealanders want the fishing method of bottom trawling banned, but Oceans and Fisheries ...

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) has recommended a big increase in Gulf of Alaska (GOA) cod catch limits for 2026 and 2027.

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) has once again rejected the salmon sector’s demands for hard caps on chum bycatch caught by pollock trawlers in the Bering Sea, though the body did ...

The Horizon polling, commissioned at the end of 2025, reveals that 78% of New Zealanders (representative of 3 million adults) want the ban in the high seas area - where New Zealand is the last country ...

The Pacific during the Second World War was the largest battlefield in history, yet all but a tiny fraction of it was water.

Beneath the ocean’s rolling surface, there are mountains. Not the snowy peaks you hike, but vast, underwater volcanoes rising ...

Japan is spending five weeks mining the sea floor. It is a technological milestone — and a stress test for how nations balance geopolitics, clean energy demand, and environmental risk.

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

Federal fisheries regulators said a cap would balance protections for Western Alaska salmon with the health of pollock ...

Only a few days ago, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, an area the size of Connecticut and 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod, was the only marine national monument, a protected area, in the Atlantic ...

A study showed that the potential of Russian fish exports to Brazil is 32,300 tonnes per year, VARPE said. This market is promising for supplies of cod, pollock, herring, Pacific salmon and ...