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Monday, February 22, 2010Alaska expects 138 million salmon this yearThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game has set its statewide commercial salmon harvest for 2010. The state agency says the projected total is 138 million salmon. – Anchorage Daily News More: www.adn.com Tough time for Cook Inlet fishermenCommercial fishermen live their lives by the ebb and flow of the tide, and in more ways than one. From season to season the price per pound paid for their catches waxes and wanes like the Cook Inlet waters that bring the salmon into their nets. – Kenai Peninsula Clarion More: www.peninsulaclarion.com Klamath deal opponent states positionThe mighty Klamath River – once the third largest salmon producing river on the West Coast – ends its 263-mile trip near Humboldt and Del Norte counties surrounded by Redwood National Park. – Eureka Times-Standard More: www.times-standard.com Yet another chapter in Adak Fisheries sagaRegular Deckboss visitors will recall the troubled processor out on Adak Island was sold back in November. Or so we thought. – Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, writing in his blog: Deckboss More: deckboss.blogspot.com Adak mess might mean more crab for UnalaskaA new emergency order by the National Marine Fisheries Service might bring more crab to Unalaska's processing plants this year. – Pacific Fishing columnist Anne Hillman, reporting for KUCB, Unalaska More: www.kucb.org Fishermen protest against Magnuson ActThe Magnuson Stevens Conservation and Management Act was well-intended in its original form, but revisions that were put into place in January 2007 have all but crushed the commercial and recreational fishing industry on Monterey Bay, and on coastlines around the United States. That's the message several dozen West Coast fishermen were hoping to deliver Saturday. – Monterey County Herald More: www.montereyherald.com/news Expect no big change in Alaska subsistence ruleSweeping changes in federal subsistence hunting and fishing rules are not likely to come from an Alaska review ordered last fall by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. – Juneau Empire More: www.juneauempire.com Foodies discover pink salmonOK, all you Northwest fish snobs. It's time to stop sneering at pink salmon. Once considered ugly-bumpkin cousins to glamorous sockeye and kings, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, or pinks, are transcending their traditional $2-a-can destiny to debut as the new, eco-friendly, sustainable darlings. – Seattle Times More: seattletimes.nwsource.com Chief says he laid no curse on Norway olympiansCursing athletes is not part of First Nations tradition, according to Chief Bob Chamberlin, who is unsure whether to be flattered or horrified at suggestions B.C. aboriginal people might have jinxed the Norwegian Olympic team over salmon farming. – Victoria Times-Colonist Read more: www.timescolonist.com/life
Tuesday, February 23, 2010Sac roe herring fishery set for Norton SoundThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game will open a commercial fishery for herring sac roe in Norton Sound this spring because Icicle Seafoods will provide a market for the product, reports Jim Menard, area manager for Norton Sound and Kotzebue. – Nome Nugget More: www.nomenugget.netOpinion: End Dungeness fisheryKeeping the Kasaan Dungeness crab fishery opened is detrimental to the sustainability of the fishery. This fishery was opened last year for the first time since it shut down in the mid-1980s. It was closed back then because of sustainability reasons. – Ronald Leighton, chairman of the Customary, Traditional and Cultural Committee of the village of Kasaan, writing in the Juneau Empire More: www.juneauempire.com/storiesEditorial: Senatorial flip-floppingWe count ourselves among those across the state still reeling from the sudden and flagrant about-face of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who recently spurned an approach to river flows and management based on science and evidence for one hinged on political favors and long-term political ambition. – Eureka Times-Standard More: www.times-standard.comBig Columbia run, but fishermen must waitDespite estimates of a 2010 upriver spring Chinook salmon run that will be the best ever, non-tribal anglers and gill-netters in the lower Columbia River will be held in check to some degree until managers know that that dream run is indeed building. – Chinook (Wash.) Observer More: www.chinookobserver.infoClosed-containment fish farm eyed for B.C.AgriMarine Holdings Inc. and the Lax Kw'alaams First Nation announced they have signed an agreement, proposing to investigate the possibility of developing closed-containment cultured salmon operations utilizing AgriMarine technology in band territory on the North Coast of British Columbia. – Marketwire More: www.marketwatch.comNE newspaper not pleased with new NMFS chiefJudging from the bluster of this Gloucester Daily Times editorial, you'd think the Obama administration had snubbed the local favorite for some guy from, oh, Alaska to run the National Marine Fisheries Service.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, writing in his blog: Deckboss More: deckboss.blogspot.com Watching boat abandoned off Alaska PeninsulaThe Department of Environmental Conservation is keeping an eye on a boat that went aground and was refloated on the southwest side of the Alaska Peninsula. The hull of the Kupreanof, a 58-foot wood-hulled vessel built in 1958, was damaged Sunday by ice and took on water. – Juneau Empire More: ap.juneauempire.comBoat towed in after one man dies abandoning itA dozen onlookers watched as the Koos King tugboat from Eureka pulled the fishing vessel Flamingo into Crescent City Harbor on Monday morning. – Crescent City Triplicate More: www.triplicate.comA quote worth reading“Scientists in Norway detail growing sea lice resistance to the chemicals designed to kill them. The Norwegian Food and Safety Authority recently reported nearly 100 cases of chemical treatment failures as sea lice are now immune. So serious is the situation that the Directorate of Nature Management – the Norwegian Government’s conservation adviser – has called for drastic reductions in farmed salmon production and slaughter of farm stock to reduce the sea lice burden.” – Georg Fredrik Rieber-Mohn, former attorney general of Norway More: In the March issue of Pacific Fishing
Wednesday, February 24, 2010Akutan in line for airport by 2012The state Transportation Department is planning a new airport for the city of Akutan by the fall of 2012. – Anchorage Daily News More: www.adn.com Alaskan communities to lose Sea GrantMarine Advisory Program positions in five coastal communities—Cordova, Nome, Dillingham, Unalaska, and Petersburg—are scheduled to run out of money later this year. A sixth position, in Kodiak, has been unfilled for the past 13 years. Fully one-third of the 16 agent and specialist positions are facing significant budget problems. – Marine Advisory Program More: seagrant.uaf.edu/news Columbia sturgeon cut backNew harvest guidelines will limit this year's catch below Bonneville Dam to 24,000 fish, a 40 percent reduction from levels last year. Of that total, 19,200 will be available for harvest by the sport fishery and 4,800 by the commercial fishery. – Seattle Times More: seattletimes.nwsource.com Bristol Bay richness ponderedWhy is Alaska’s Bristol Bay, even in 2010, home to tens of millions of wild salmon? This headwaters menagerie of big rivers, giant lakes, ponds and willowy streams is perfect habitat. To keep it healthy, this habitat needs protection. – Mother Nature Network More: www.mnn.com/earth-matters Siuslaw port to get ice machineLane County awarded a $79,000 economic development grant last week to the Port of Siuslaw, covering the final costs required to complete the ice machine on the Old Town wharf by this spring. – Siuslaw News More: www.thesiuslawnews.com Coast Guard cutter back to KodiakThe crew of the 282-foot Medium Endurance Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley returned to their homeport of Kodiak after an 80 day deployment to the South Pacific. – Coast Guard press release More: www.piersystem.com Irish company to certify Alaska seafood harvestsAn Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute committee has picked a firm to certify the state's major commercial fisheries as sustainably managed. – Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, writing in his blog: Deckboss More: deckboss.blogspot.com Another study of Fraser sockeyeJustice Bruce Cohen is all lawyered up and ready to embark on his quest for millions of missing Fraser River sockeye salmon. The story so far has the makings of an intriguing mystery. The experts estimated 10 million salmon would be heading for the river system last year, but only about a million showed up. – Victoria Times-Colonist Read more: www.timescolonist.com
Thursday, February 25, 2010Coast salmon news grim, but some see improvement
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