The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) has recommended a big increase in Gulf of Alaska (GOA) cod catch limits for 2026 and 2027.

Though fishery regulators set status quo limits for the harvest in December, they agreed to revisit the issue at a February ...

The fall harvest season for Alaska Cod opened last week in Alaska’s Bering Sea, with a harvest limit of over 36,000 metric tons (over 79 million pounds). The Gulf of Alaska harvest season opens on ...

Editor's note: USA TODAY, with support from the Pulitzer Center, traveled to Alaska, Southern California, Florida and Maine to document climate change's effects on oceans and the people who fish in ...

Fishermen in the Bering Sea black cod fishery, off the US state of Alaska, say an increase in orcas picking off their catch is getting so bad, some are foregoing the season altogether. That's ...