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Monday, February 27, 2023

Cook Inlet setnet buyback

Legislation to reduce the fleet returns, this time with Sen. Bjorkman as sponsor.

Fire damages troller at Sitka

Katie Westfall joins NOAA Fisheries as a senior adviser focused on offshore wind

Ship spotting at Seattle’s Terminal 91

Commentary: Halibut treaty marked new era in Canadian independence


Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Chignik debate

The state Board of Fisheries considers a controversial proposal for the troubled Southwest Alaska fishing district.

Oregon seafood industry feels economic hit from Russia’s war against Ukraine

Norton Sound crabbers become catcher-sellers to offload winter harvest

UAF Bristol Bay Campus hosts lunchtime info series for local fishermen

Alaska Fish and Game to conduct herring seine test fishery at Kayak Island

U.S. Coast Guard cutter Munro calls on Juneau after busy Alaska patrol


Wednesday, March 1, 2023

‘This lawsuit is ridiculous’

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan vows to oppose the bid to shut down Southeast Alaska’s king salmon troll fishery.

Alaska Airlines’ flying salmon is about to be extinct

Fishery scientists announce poor 2023 outlook for California’s ocean
salmon stocks

Homer harbor expansion analysis planned

Gov. Inslee appoints three members to Washington Fish and
Wildlife Commission

Shrinking age distribution of spawning salmon raises climate resilience concerns

U.S. introduces Alaska seafood to Vietnamese market


Thursday, March 2, 2023

California’s salmon situation

Commercial salmon fishing may be barred for the first time
since 2009.

Juneau joins Southeast Alaska communities in backing king salmon troll fishery

New forecast zones to provide more accurate weather information for
Alaska mariners

Kodiak’s commercial fishing trade show ComFish kicks off in two weeks

‘Alaska Fisheries Report’ from KMXT in Kodiak

Coast Guard-approved first aid at sea workshop set for March 21 in
Port Townsend


Friday, March 3, 2023

Mounting resistance

Support builds for Southeast Alaska’s embattled king salmon
troll fishery as the state awaits a federal judge’s potentially
ruinous ruling.

USCG, good Samaritans rescue crew of fishing vessel 545 miles southwest
of Hawaii

Rare all-white Dungeness crab caught off Oregon, is spared the dinner plate

Southeast Alaska herring spawn-on-kelp quota, season start date announced

Aleutian Airways will start regular flights from Anchorage to King Salmon
this summer

Army Corps of Engineers receives funding for Unalaska dredging project

Alaska’s fisheries are collapsing. This congresswoman is taking on the industry she says is to blame


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