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Peltola sponsors a bill to limit salmon bycatch. The pollock industry calls it 'unworkable.'

Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola introduced two bills Wednesday that aim to deliver on one of her campaign themes: Reducing the number of salmon that the Bering Sea fishing fleet catches by accident. One of the bills would curtail the use of fishing nets that scrape sensitive parts of the sea floor. It would require regional fisheries management councils to designate bottom trawl zones and limit that kind of fishing to those areas.

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Assembly backs policy to limit halibut bycatch in Bering Sea

Assembly backs policy to limit halibut bycatch in Bering Sea
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Decades ago, sperm whales learned how to raid fishermen's lines of black cod. Now, an Alaska man is charged with killing one.

A Ketchikan fisherman has pleaded guilty in federal court to killing an endangered sperm whale in a first-of-its-kind case.

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Peltola Introduces Pair of Fish Bills to Restrict Bottom Trawling, Reduce Bycatch

Peltola Introduces Pair of Fish Bills to Restrict Bottom Trawling, Reduce Bycatch
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Decades ago, sperm whales learned how to raid fishermen's lines of black cod. Now, an Alaska man is charged with killing one.

Decades ago, sperm whales learned how to raid fishermen's lines of black cod. Now, an Alaska man is charged with killing one.
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