Behind the Scenes: Preparing for Alaska Pollock A Season
The start of A Season isn’t just a date on the calendar. It’s the moment when preparation meets reality. When crews who have spent weeks getting ready step away from their families, their routines, and dry land, and commit themselves to months at sea.
Industry Experts Collaborate to Test Next Generation of Salmon Excluder Devices
In April 2025, Alaska Pollock captains, crews, industry, and researchers gathered at the Marine Institute in Newfoundland to test salmon excluder devices – pollock net innovations designed to reduce salmon bycatch.
Erik Jensen, a third-generation fisherman and mate on the Alaskan Defender, shared his perspective.
Responsible Fishery Management is a Powerful Tool to Conserve Our Ocean
The new Ocean documentary provides a remarkable portrait of life beneath the waves. This World Ocean Day, it’s appropriate to follow the film’s gaze on climate change and destructive fishing – two major threats to the marine environment globally. Unfortunately, our most powerful and achievable tool to ensure fisheries are healthy for future generations—responsible fishery management—is entirely absent from the film’s narrative. Acknowledging and scaling up the implementation of responsible fishery management globally is an urgent priority we should unite to advance.
The Sustainable Management of the U.S. Alaska Pollock Fishery
There is an old parable about a person looking for his car keys under a streetlight. He is asked by a passerby where exactly he lost them, and he replies that it was in a nearby parking lot. When the surprised passerby asks why he isn’t looking there, the man replies, “because the light is better here.”