The 418'x54' U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) and crew returned to Alameda, Calif., recently after completing a 130-day deployment patrolling the Bering Sea. Homeported in Alameda, Ber
The Bering Sea trawl sector, valued at about $2 billion, catches more chum salmon as bycatch than subsistence fishermen harvest.
Initially believed to be a cold, arid grassland, the stretch more resembled the modern-day Yukon-Kuskokwim floodplain.
Federal fishery managers took steps on Tuesday to impose new rules to prevent Alaska chum salmon from being scooped into nets used to catch Bering Sea pollock, an industrial-scale fishery that makes up the nation’s largest single-species commercial seafood harvest,
The Bering Sea snow crab season opened in October after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled back-to-back seasons in 2022-23 and 2023-24 due to low population numbers.
While the return of the Bering Sea snow crab fishery is a positive development, it’s clear that fishermen, processors, and coastal communities are still navigating an uphill battle. The road to stability will require not only healthy crab stocks but also systemic changes that prioritize the resilience of the fishing industry as a whole.
Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge, researchers have found that large swaths of it were floodplains pocked with bogs and