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Monday, January 25, 2021

Continuing COVID trouble

The coronavirus has idled another major Bering Sea processing plant, Alyeska Seafoods.

Another poor sockeye season forecast for Upper Cook Inlet

Turnover at the top of NMFS

Biden signs 'milestone' order on Bering Sea protections, indigenous knowledge

B.C. commercial salmon fishermen discuss cures for an industry on the brink

Washington, Oregon commissions to meet on Columbia River
conservation, fisheries


Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Fish board COVID disruption

The Alaska Board of Fisheries postpones in-person meetings planned this spring for Ketchikan, Cordova, and Anchorage.

U.S. Coast Guard rescues three off sinking crab boat at Humboldt Bay

Domoic acid delays hobble Southwest Washington commercial fishing ports

MSC certification reinstated for Pacific cod in Gulf of Alaska

Huge cold storage planned at Anchorage airport

NOAA finalizes strategy to advance 'blue economy'


Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Akutan outbreak

135 workers at Trident's Akutan, Alaska, processing plant have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Biden climate plan draws some praise from Alaska fishermen

Cantwell calls on commerce secretary nominee to put science first,
protect salmon

Port of Astoria works toward pier improvements

U.S. Coast Guard holds groundbreaking for Bay Area search and rescue facility

Opinion: Biden administration should steer clear of environmental colonialism


Thursday, January 28, 2021

Trident's COVID calamity

Trident Seafoods now reports that 266 workers at its Akutan, Alaska, processing plant have tested positive for COVID-19, and the disease also has hit one of its factory trawlers.

Young introduces legislation to 'block presidential attempts to lock away
Alaska's oceans'

OBI Seafoods hires 'canned salmon expert' from Peter Pan

U.S. Coast Guard to hold virtual hearing in loss of F/V Scandies Rose

Americans, Russians jointly patrol Bering Sea maritime boundary line

NOAA Fisheries releases ecosystem status reports for Alaska

B.C. salmon farmers go to court over move to end Discovery Islands operations


Friday, January 29, 2021

Halibut uptick

The International Pacific Halibut Commission set a coastwide catch limit of 39 million pounds, up 6.6 percent from last year.

Cook Inlet fisheries under attack

Southeast Alaska's 2020-21 Dungeness harvest is second-largest on record

Tanner crab test fishery planned in Prince William Sound area

ASMI marketing update

DFO is making new fishing rules. Will they work?


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