I grew up in Alaska and have spent much of my life – 43 years – fishing the Bering Sea. I captain the F/V Sovereignty, a 165-foot catcher boat that’s part of the commercial pollock fleet. From the ...

If you order a Filet-O-Fish at any of the “Arches,” the fish in the sandwich is U.S.-caught wild Alaska pollock. In fact, if you order a fish at virtually any quick-service restaurant, chances are ...

Alaska pollock lie on the deck of the factory trawler Northern Hawk in the Bering Sea. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Alaska’s fish ...

Pollock are transferred from a fishing boat into a processing plant in Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, in January 2019. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will buy up to $50 million worth of ...

Cole Hockema captains the Pacific Storm, a 100-foot trawler based out of Kodiak, which his father owns. Cole Hockema has been fishing since he was a teenager growing up in Oregon. For 12 years now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Audience listens to testimony Feb. 9, 2026, at the North Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting in Anchorage. Subsistence ...

While the deep-pocketed trawling industry rakes in millions, indigenous Alaskans, small-scale fisheries, and the state’s ecosystem are being left out to dry. Alaskan pollock is one of the world’s most ...

Lacking the usual amount of data to guide them, federal fishery managers relied on last year’s reports to set the coming year’s harvests for the nation’s top-volume commercial fish species: Alaska ...

Introduction : white gold fever -- A historical background : from an inexhaustible ocean to the three-mile limit -- Fishing the high seas : Japan and the Soviet Union develop the Alaska pollock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaska pollock, shown here from a harvest, make up the nation's top-volume single-species commercial seafood catch. Alaska pollock ...