Fisheries

Bycatch including a skate, right, and a chum salmon, left, are visible among a pollock catch aboard the F/V Progress in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

In this photo provided by Sea Shepherd, a whale swims near the krill trawler Fu Xing Hai with mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula in the background, on April 2, 2025. (Youenn Kerdavid/Sea Shepherd via AP)

In this photo provided by Sea Shepherd, a whale swims near the krill trawler Fu Xing Hai with mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula in the background, on April 2, 2025. (Youenn Kerdavid/Sea Shepherd via AP)

A scallop fishing boat leaves the dock, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Yarmouth, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

In this July 2021 photo provided by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society., A Chinese-flagged ship fishes for squid at night on the high seas off the west coast of South America July 2021 photo provided by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Since 2009 the number of Chinese-flagged vessels in the southern Pacific surged 10-fold to 557 in 2020, according to an intergovernmental group charged with ensuring conservation and sustainable fishing. (Isaac Haslam / Sea Shepherd via AP)