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Monday, March 14, 2022

West Coast ocean salmon outlook

Forecasts for many Chinook and coho stocks have improved over last year, the Pacific Fishery Management Council says.

Alaska lawmakers applaud Biden administration ban on Russian seafood imports

Russian seafood ban will drive up prices; too soon to say if Alaska fishermen
will benefit

Sitka Sound herring fishery update No. 1

Sitka Tribe and herring seiners step away from their contentious proposals

Fish board seat remains vacant more than a month after governor’s deadline
to appoint

Oregon’s Commercial Fishery Permit Board to meet Tuesday

Conservationists petition for greater North Pacific right whale protection


Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Taming the Sitka herring fishery

Two proposals to convert the hotly competitive seine harvest to catch shares fail to win support from the Alaska Board of Fisheries.

Poachers beware, there’s a new force in the Oregon courts

Oregon commission to consider increased harvest of nonnative European
green crabs

Volunteers sought as WDFW marks millions of hatchery salmon for release

Sullivan welcomes Senate passage of American Fisheries Advisory
Committee Act

Opinion: What lessons can Alaska learn – and share – on Arctic fisheries?


Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Perilous Oregon bar

U.S. Coast Guard video shows daunting conditions at the
Umpqua River bar.

Board rejects proposal for spiny dogfish pot fishery in Southeast Alaska

B.C. Premier Horgan raises concerns to Trudeau about job impact of salmon
farm closures

Wider World: The carrier Kitty Hawk goes to scrap

Opinion: Russian seafood ban is meaningless without real traceability

Opinion: Alaska is taking serious action to address bycatch


Thursday, March 17, 2022

Alaska crabbing ‘sanctuaries’

The state fish board votes to close some parts of Southeast to commercial and sport Dungeness fishing in a nod to local residents seeking to increase their subsistence catch.

Board rejects equal shares as a way to allow limited Southeast Alaska red king crab harvest

Telecom company, Trident provide subsidized Internet to Ukrainian employees
in Aleutians

Togiak herring outlook

Pop-up vessel recycler in B.C.’s biggest shellfish production area draws attention

Opinion: Horgan sounds alarm over Ottawa’s plans to end B.C. fish farms


Friday, March 18, 2022

Bering Sea medevac

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter hoists an injured crewman off the factory trawler America’s Finest.

Below average Copper River Chinook salmon run forecasted

Alaska newsman Jay Barrett dies

Alaska return to Russia? Not happening, state’s top pols say

‘Alaska Fisheries Report’ from KMXT in Kodiak


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