Bill Rhea, a veteran seaman who survived when his 47-foot trawler rolled over in heavy seas on the Columbia River bar June 4, says he plans to repair his battered vessel.

Kodiak-based USCG cutter John Witherspoon rescued crewmembers from a disabled fishing trawler in some pretty rough Gulf of Alaska conditions last week.

Much has been written about suspected sabotage of undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, but the UN says fishing trawlers, not spies, are causing most of the damage. "Generally, around 80 percent of cable ...

It’s been three years since a crash in king salmon populations forced an outright ban on fishing for them in the Yukon River. And barring an unexpected recovery, residents along the river won’t be ...