Monday, May 18, 2015
Slow start for Copper River
Thursday’s season opener produced an estimated catch of 16,100 sockeye salmon and 1,400 Chinook, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game reports.
First salmon of Copper River season lands in Seattle
Commercial fishermen at Cordova protest military exercises
Chemical tags in ear bones track Bristol Bay salmon
Alaska Board of Fish schedules teleconference on cod proposals
USCG cutter Munro holds change of command event in Kodiak
Knut Einarsen recounts Nazi escape, new start in Ballard
Oregon lawmakers grapple with Fish and Wildlife funding gap
Newport’s rotting docks draw attention
Website launched to help fishermen direct sell their catch
Agencies mount biggest fish-lift ever in parched California
Calif. authorities cite six in illegal takes of juvenile salmon
Technology aims to cut out Japan’s seafood middlemen
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Alaska's budget battle
Gov. Bill Walker warns of mass layoffs unless legislators can settle on a fully funded spending plan.
Roland Maw fined $7,245 in Montana
State opens Norton Sound commercial herring bait fishery
An update on B.C.'s Mount Polley, Red Chris mines
Columbia River treaty Indian gillnet opener set
Vancouver, Wash., newspaper details oil terminal secrecy
Partnership recognized for effort to reduce seabird bycatch
Opah, or moonfish, identified as first fully warm-blooded fish
Senators offer bill to combat 'pirate fishing'
Opinion: Kenai River Sportfishing Association wields big stick
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Reds romp
The North Pacific saw a “dramatic increase” in the sockeye salmon harvest in 2014, the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission reports.
Fishermen protest policy threat to Willapa salmon gillnetting
APICDA’s Cannon Fish touts new Seattle area processing plant
Book, exhibit recall 1980s fishing ‘gold rush’ in Sitka
Young highlights provisions in House-passed Coast Guard bill
CG bill would keep Newport air base open two more years
Hong Kong lifts ban on B.C. geoduck
Southern Oregon nonprofit aims to calm seas, or make waves
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Third man up
In his latest attempt to fill an Alaska Board of Fisheries vacancy, Gov. Bill Walker appoints Robert Mumford, a retired wildlife trooper.
Another small sockeye catch at Copper River
Pete Andrew appointed to board of Bristol Bay association
With technology, old maps shed new light on Alaska fish habitat
Conservationists say prawn traps damage B.C. sponge reefs
Prince Rupert’s festive Fishermen’s Hall closes in on 50
Major Klamath fish kill likely as salmon parasite thrives in drought
Obama reportedly threatens veto of Magnuson-Stevens bill
Friday, May 22, 2015
MSC squabble
The Marine Stewardship Council proposes mediation to help resolve a “certificate sharing” dispute between two groups of Alaska salmon processors.