ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In a move aimed at limiting harm to Arctic waters opened by global warming, a federal advisory board voted Thursday to ban commercial fishing north of the Bering Strait off ...

Nine people were rescued Monday from a commercial fishing vessel that ran aground on St. George Island and began taking on ...

In a move aimed at limiting harm to Arctic waters opened by global warming, a federal advisory board voted Thursday to ban commercial fishing north of the Bering Strait off Alaska's coast. The North ...

PORTLAND, Maine — The United States is trying to broker an agreement between a host of nations to prohibit unregulated fishing in the international waters of the Arctic Ocean. Such an agreement would ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The United States is trying to broker an agreement between a host of nations to prohibit unregulated fishing in the international waters of the Arctic Ocean. Such an agreement ...

It is sensible for the U.S. to seek to prevent overfishing in the high seas of the Central Arctic Ocean. The agreement that the U.S. signed on this subject in October 2018 has a reasonable objective ...

WASHINGTON — For Arctic nations, one of the so-called "benefits" of global warming has been the promise of opening up new fisheries in a remote part of the world choked by ice much of the year. But ...

This afternoon (Lower-48 time), representatives of Pacific Northwest states, Uncle Sam, and fishers concluded an unprecedented agreement to indefinitely put U.S. Arctic waters off limits to commercial ...

An image of 2018 Arctic sea ice minimum extent, with red line representing the 30-year average. Shrinking sea ice means new questions are being asked about the potential for commercial fishing in the ...

Fish in arctic waters used to be protected by ice. But now that the polar ice cap is melting away regularly, five countries with coastlines in the Arctic have agreed to regulate commercial fishing ...

The Arctic ice pack is breaking up. Bad news for the global climate, but good news for commercial fishing fleets looking for untapped sources of wild seafood. Not so fast — The North Pacific Fishery ...

An area of the Canadian Arctic has been declared off-limits to commercial fishing for several years following an agreement between the Canadian government and local Indigenous people, according to ...