“Public patience is wearing thin. If the fishing industry refuses to draw the line at the bottom, the public eventually will.”
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ADN Opinion: Alaska is sounding the alarm for fisheries in the US
As in Alaska, the Atlantic and Gulf of Maine is seeing massive industrial boats wreak havoc on small commercial and recreational fisheries.
Alaska Groundfish at a glance: Who-What-Where-How Much
NOAA charts and tables show that the bulk of Alaska’s groundfish, bycatch and profits are taken by Outside factory trawlers
Rep. Kevin McCabe: Are We Fishing, or Are We Mining
Start treating trawling as resource extraction. The extracted thing isn’t the point. As with mining, the place it comes out of is the point.
CBC News: Alaskan frustration grows over trawling during the Yukon River salmon moratorium
Trawlers have caught 20,197 Chinook salmon as bycatch so far this year in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska.
‘Alaskans Against Big Trawl’ Launches Statewide Campaign Calling On Federal Leaders to Stand Up to Trawl Industry
Campaign says it is centered on a simple fact: “The industry is wasting our marine resources to line their pockets, and our representatives aren’t doing enough to stop them.”
Expana: NOAA Directs $123.6M in Fishery Disaster Funds to Alaska, West Coast, and Squaxin Island Tribe
The disaster applies to 2023/24 Bering Sea snow crab. Meanwhile, the NPFMC increased the trawl bycatch allowance for that season and tripled the bycatch for 2025/26.
“Pollock is the hidden foundation of Alaska’s fishing economy” writes Adam Trombley, State Director for US Senator Dan Sullivan and Strategic Director for new pollock PR group “The Truth Alaska”
“The anti-trawling campaign in Alaska is substantially funded and amplified by Outside NGOs…to shape how Alaskans think about their own resources,” writes Trombley. Omits that the big pollock trawl companies in Alaska are Outsiders who take home 82% of the value of all AK pollock.
Nat’l Fisherman: Groundfish industry cleans 55,935 pounds of nets for recycling
The plastic nets are repurposed into new products such as playground equipment, plastic lumber, outdoor furniture, garden tools – and protection for Ukrainians from explosive Russian drones.
ADN Opinion: Trawling impacts everyone. Yes, it should be a key issue in Alaska’s elections.
Community Development Quotas are frequently used as an argument for keeping the current system in place. CDQ income is not a replacement for subsistence, nor does its current structure provide an economically or ecologically sustainable industry in rural communities.