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Monday, March 13, 2023

Bristol Bay’s king salmon conundrum

The Alaska Board of Fisheries is weighing conservation measures for struggling Nushagak king salmon runs, but what would the cost be to the lucrative sockeye harvest?

Halibut box closes in on Alaska trawl fleet

USCG medevacs Canadian crewman from fishing vessel near Graham Island, B.C.

Alaska House, congressional delegation throw weight behind defense of
troll lawsuit

Kodiak herring sac roe fishery to begin April 1 with 8,650-ton quota

Peter Pan to purchase Trapper’s Creek Smoking

Canadian indicted in boat theft

Opinion: Lawsuit threatens Washington’s commercial fishing families


Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Conserving Bristol Bay kings

The Alaska Board of Fisheries has approved an action plan to
help conserve Nushagak River king salmon runs, which have declined sharply in recent years even as sockeye returns have broken records.

West Coast crabbers file suit alleging Pacific Seafood ‘artificially’
suppressed prices

Cooke agrees to acquire Slade Gorton

U.S. Coast Guard to present posthumous Purple Hearts

A growing plastic smog is choking the world’s oceans


Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Sitka herring watch

Aerial surveys have begun ahead of the spring sac roe fishery.

Judge wants plan to protect humpback whales from West Coast sablefish fishery

Small businesses affected by Alaska crab crash may be eligible for low-interest federal loans

State forecasts stronger sockeye run in Upper Cook Inlet, but still well below historical average

Narcan trainings new to this year’s Kodiak ComFish schedule

Kodiak officials say waterfront development needs to start with St. Herman Harbor repairs

Bob Penney, Kenai River sportfishing advocate, reported to have died

Lawsuit targets Southeast Alaska salmon fishery to save 73 orcas

CDFW using winter storms to help increase survival of hatchery released Chinook salmon


Thursday, March 16, 2023

Fish farmers fight back

In a new campaign, Puget Sound aquaculture workers are speaking out on “the pain they and their families have endured” as the result of Washington state’s fish farming ban.

Oregon ocean salmon fisheries affected by California’s low forecasted returns

State lawmakers join call to feds to intervene in Canadian mining upriver
of Alaska

Looking back: the U.S. Coast Guard’s famed Alaskan Monarch rescue

Commercial fisherman fined and banned, Canadian officials say

Growing appetite for bigger fish has Ilwaco charter heading for deeper water

NOAA Fisheries seeks public comment on enforcement priorities for 2023-27


Friday, March 17, 2023

The Alaska situation

“Crisis” is the appropriate word for struggles seen recently in the state’s fisheries, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says.

Most of Oregon’s ocean fall-run Chinook fishing season could be canceled

Bob Penney, Kenai River Sportfishing Association founder, dies at 90

Fisheries and Oceans Canada faces deluge of calls to improve ‘suspect’ science

Observing fisheries in Alaska


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