Nathan Strout

A dozen conservation groups penned a letter to the White House asking for the Executive Office of the President to take over a review of the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) that was initiated by NOAA Fisheries late last year.

NOAA Fisheries terminated its plans for a limited expansion of SIMP – a government program designed to crack down on illegal, unreported, or unregulated (IUU) fishing – late last year in response to

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) rejected a request for increased duties on imported steel, determining domestic producers are “not materially injured” by the imports.

The federal investigation into duties on imported tin was launched in response to a petition by Ohio-based mining company Cleveland-Cliffs and the United Steelworkers Union. The joint group sought duties ranging from 47 percent to 300 percent on tin

Several tribal governments in Alaska, as well as the Center for Biological Diversity, plan to sue NOAA Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop the government from conducting an experimental bottom-trawl study in the northern Bering Sea.

“In light of the rapid and dramatic environmental and human-caused changes that are threatening our iconic marine environments in Alaska, we expect our federal government to act responsibly

A bill making its way through the U.S. state of California's legislature would introduce more restrictions on the state’s gillnet fishery.

Gillnet fishing has been banned along most of California’s coast, but it remains legal in federal waters and in state waters around California’s Channel Islands. State Assemblymember Steve Bennett (D-Ventura) has introduced legislation – Assembly Bill 2220 – that would