The Alaska Ranger's crew faced bone-chilling temperatures and rough seas after their boat sank.

If midwater trawlers need to keep dragging nets across the seafloor to catch pollock, they should be managed like any other ...

The implosion at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. pulp mill in Longview, Wa. is among the worst workplace disasters in state ...

The Alaska Ranger was already flooding when a power failure triggered an even stranger disaster. Its propellers defaulted into reverse, forcing the ship backward as the stern dropped lower and the ...

Federal fisheries managers are scheduled to take up pelagic trawl gear issues in Alaska's commercial fisheries when they meet ...

Trawlers are currently allowed to drag the ocean bottom, including in protected areas — because they are not defined as dragging the bottom. ANCHORAGE, AK— The North Pacific Fishery Management Council ...

In a June 1 statement, Alaska-based nonprofit SalmonState urged the council to close what it describes as a loophole that ...

The Storis is intended as a stopgap until the new Arctic Security Cutters enter service—but the former civilian oil vessel has shown excellent capabilities of its own.

A preliminary study suggests that blocking off the waterway between Russia and Alaska could help the survival of a key system of ocean currents. But there could be potential unforeseen consequences, p ...

Scientists are pushing for “radical” measures against climate change, proposing the construction of a dam across the Bering Strait that would link Alaska and Russia, said Science. A study by ...

USCGC Waesche covered 18,685 nautical miles on a deployment that included maritime law enforcement and search-and-rescue ...