President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that reopens portions of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument (previously known as the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National ...

The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM) was established by Proclamation 8336 of January 6, 2009 (Establishment of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument), and then ...

The trawl deck of the Alaska Warrior is seen on March 28, 2008, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. (Photo by Petty Officer Sara Francis/Coast Guard) An advertiser-sponsored article in the Seattle Times gushed ...

She is the flagship of the German deepsea fishing fleet the Maartje Theadora Built for oceangoing service the trawler is out in the fishing grounds of the Pacific for more than 300 days a year This ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging ...

The prospects of opening up Hawaii’s protected marine monument to commercial fishing has moved a step closer to reality.

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 ...

According to a recent poll, seventy percent of Alaskans would approve a total ban on industrial pollock trawlers off the state’s coasts. In line with this overwhelming support, U.S. Representative ...

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 ...