Orcas spotted in the Bering Sea in August 2023. (Courtesy Of Dustin Unignax̂ Newman) Federal officials are looking into the deaths of nine orcas that were hauled up by groundfish trawlers in Bering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Killer whales surface in Alaska. Alaska’s Bering Sea and Aleutian Island groundfish trawl fisheries this year caught 10 killer ...

Federal officials are looking into the deaths of nine orcas hauled up by groundfish trawlers in Alaska’s Bering Sea since May. Conservationists say more needs to be done to prevent such deaths. They ...

A conservation group is preparing to sue the federal government for allegedly failing to protect killer whales from trawlers in the Bering Sea. The trawl fleet in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Large areas of the Bering Sea off Alaska’s coast are soon be off-limits to bottom trawling, a practice involving fishing vessels that drag huge, weighted nets across the ocean ...

Tribal and environmental advocates calling for a crackdown on salmon and halibut bycatch are set to gain a new ally on the federal council that manages Alaska’s lucrative Bering Sea fisheries.

A federal fishery agency reported last week that 10 killer whales were caught in the gear of trawl net vessels fishing this year in the Bering Sea and North Pacific waters off the Aleutian Islands.

The Arctic Rose did not send a mayday. In the early hours of April 2, 2001, the 92-foot fishing trawler vanished in the Bering Sea, and all 15 crew members were lost. What makes the story hit so hard ...