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 ...

The prospects of opening up Hawaii’s protected marine monument to commercial fishing has moved a step closer to reality. Members of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, or Wespac, ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that seeks to open up 400,000 square miles of ocean southwest of Hawaii to commercial fishing, a move local groups see as "short-sighted" and ...

A hui of Hawaiian cultural practitioners, the Conservation Council for Hawaii and the Center for Biological Diversity stopped President Donald Trump from allowing commercial fishing in parts of the ...

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 ...