This week, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council has been looking at ways to cut back on the number of salmon that get scooped up by commercial trawl boats in the Bering Sea.

The goal is to send more chums and Chinook back to subsistence users around the state. But getting there won’t be easy.

This week, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council will decide whether to mount a new crackdown on salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea's biggest fishery.

The pollock fleet could be asked to fish earlier in the year to avoid salmon. And they may face tighter limits on the number of salmon they can take without shutting down their season.

For the last four years, the hard limit on Chinook salmon has been 60,000 fish. The council is considering a plan to lower that cap by 25 to 60 percent in years when the Chinook aren't doing well.

Credit: Vincenzo Floramo / Greenpeace

Update, 5 p.m. Tuesday: Royal Dutch Shell is seeking a court injunction to remove Greenpeace activists who boarded a vessel carrying a Shell oil drilling rig across the Pacific.

The company asked a U.S. District Court judge in Anchorage to order protesters to disembark immediately, according to a Tuesday email from a Shell USA spokesperson.

On Monday, six activists from Greenpeace boarded the Polar Pioneer rig as it traversed the Pacific Ocean.

The Hill Place Apartments sit above South Pacesetter Way. (Lauren Rosenthal/KUCB)

An Unalaska man has died after a car accident near the UniSea processing plant.

Ted Walker, 54, was driving past the Hill Place Apartments on Sunday afternoon when his Ford pickup rolled down a slope. The truck landed on South Pacesetter Way near the Galaxy Dock.

Police sergeant Bill Simms says Walker had "a variety of injuries caused by the accident itself." He was transported to the clinic and passed away a few hours later during a medevac flight to Anchorage.

Two former seafood processors have pleaded guilty to fatally beating their co-worker in Unalaska.

Instead of going through another trial, Denison Soria and Leonardo Bongolto, Jr., will serve 40 to 70 months in prison for the death of Jonathan Adams.

He passed away after a fight at the Bering Fisheries bunkhouse in 2012.

Co-owner Mark Chisum poses with Fox Island Bakery's new truck. (Annie Ropeik/KUCB)

New restaurants are a rare sight in Unalaska. And when they do pop up, they're usually not on wheels. 

This Saturday, Fox Island Bakery's food truck will open for business.

"We want it to be something the community can enjoy," says co-owner Mark Chisum. 

Emergency crews were still combing through the Sea of Okhotsk on Friday. (Credit: Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations)

Rescuers in Russia are continuing to search for crew members from a sunken factory trawler.

The Dalny Vostok capsized on Wednesday with 132 people on board. So far, 56 have been reported dead and 13 are still missing, according to the Voice of America.

The mostly Russian crew was out fishing for pollock this week in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kamchatka Peninsula. It’s not clear what caused their 338-foot vessel to flip and sink.

Rescuers are still looking for 15 missing crew members in the Sea of Okhotsk. (Credit: Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations)

More than 50 fishermen have died after a Russian factory trawler sank in the Sea of Okhotsk on Wednesday.

The Dalny Vostok was hauling in a load of pollock when it started to capsize, according to maritime and government officials.

Within 15 minutes, the vessel was totally submerged.

After weeks of discussion, Unalaska’s city council rejected a plan to open up bidding for long-term tenants at the municipal dock.

Dozens of longshoremen and employees from Horizon Lines watched last night as councilors debated whether to ask for proposals from other shipping companies that want to secure space at the Unalaska Marine Center.

The measure needed four votes to pass, since councilor Roger Rowland was excused from the meeting. It failed 3-2, with Alejandro “Bong” Tungul and Yudelka Leclere voting no.