Tuesday, May 28, 2013
MOVIE STAR AND PEBBLE
The Obama administration must put a stop to this exploitative and misguided scheme.
– Robert Redford in the Los Angeles Times
More: latimes.com
God or government?
A hot debate is going on in Alaska over whether the religious rights of Native Alaskans are more important than state salmon fishing rules in light of a recent case in which a judge ruled that the needs of salmon trumps everyone's and anyone's religious rights.
– God Discussion
More: goddiscussion.com
Money for hurricane fishermen
Eligible businesses will be able to apply for grants of up to $50,000 to cover uncompensated losses.
– Patch.com
More: bellmore.patch.com
Fish seeking cooler waters
Fish and other sea life have been heading toward the Earth’s poles for more than three decades.
– Richmond (Virginia) Times Dispatch
More: timesdispatch.com
B.C. lice count published
The sea lice count numbers for British Columbia in April show levels in the Okisollo/Hoskyn Channel area continue to be below the threshold for treatment as required by regulation.
– FishNewsEU
More: fishnewseu.com
High processing wages
Coastal Villages Seafood will pay $10 an hour for new employees.
– KDLG, Dillingham
More: kdlg.org
CDQ buys marketer
Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association is buying Cannon Fish Co., a Seattle-based processing and marketing company.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Wesley Loy, reporting on his blog: Deckboss
More: deckboss.blogspot.com
Anti-Pebble ads
Recently the mine has sparked campaigns focused on people in the lower 48 states.
– KDLG, Dillingham
More: kdlg.org
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
MAKING 'VALUE CHAIN' MONEY
How that "value chain" has paid out in the past few years shows some nice gains for Alaska fishermen and processors.
– Pacific Fishing columnist Laine Welch, writing in SitNews, Ketchikan
More: sitnews.us
Land fish farms don't work
Government says there have been numerous attempts to farm Atlantic salmon in fully enclosed inland facilities, but they have proven not to be economically, environmentally, or technically viable.
– VOCM, Newfoundland
More: vocm.com
Cleaning up Alaska
The Alaska Marine Stewardship Foundation announced that it will be conducting eight marine debris cleanup projects throughout Alaska this season with several of the cleanup projects located in Southeast.
– Sitnews, Ketchikan
More: sitnews.us
Gillnetters on the Columbia
Gillnetters will be working the lower Columbia River from 7 p.m. Wednesday to 7 a.m. Thursday. The estimated catch is 300 adult spring Chinook.
– The (Longview) Daily News
More: tdn.com
Tribes oppose coal exports
The tribes took this strong stand, voicing unified opposition against investors and the large transporters and exporters of fossil fuel energy.
– North Country Outlook, Marysville, Wash.
More: northcountyoutlook.com
Mining the Stikine
Environmental groups are trying to raise awareness about plans for new, open-pit mining operations in the Stikine river region of British Columbia.
– KFSK, Petersburg
More: kfsk.org
Volcano update
Scientists are now able to monitor two remote volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula after equipment came back to life this spring.
– KDLG, Dillingham
More: kdlg.org
Jet service for Adak
Alaska Airlines was the only company that responded to a recent request from the federal Department of Transportation for bids on the community's Essential Air Service contract, and they've agreed to commit for two years.
– KUBC, Unalaska
More: kucb.org
Thursday, May 30, 2013
SUCCESS IN REARING KING CRAB
This year marks the first in which wild-caught red king crab broodstock from Kodiak have been successfully used for larvae rearing.
– Sea Grant
More: seagrant.uaf.edu
Saving Kuskokwim kings
"Since about 68 percent of their Chinook salmon are bound for the river systems in Western Alaska, why can't the bycatch – if it numbers 50,000 or even 20,000 – be reduced by 68 percent to allow for salmon to return to the river systems?”
– Alaska Dispatch
More: www.alaskadispatch.com
Seldovia’s wild days
Exhibits call to mind Seldovia’s booming salmon, crab, clam, shrimp, and herring industry offering employment for hundreds of people and drawing fishermen and their families to the area.
– Homer News
More: homernews.com
New look at Bristol Bay
Freelance photographer Carl Johnson hopes to raise $20,000 through the crowd-funding site to help tell the story of Bristol Bay through photos.
– KDLG, Dillingham
More: kdlg.org
Protecting European fish
North Sea stocks of cod, the emblematic fish in the Atlantic EU waters, have declined by roughly 75 percent over three decades and special campaigns to revive the species have long struggled.
– Anchorage Daily News
More: adn.com
New at Sea Grant
Paula Cullenberg will be the new director of Alaska Sea Grant, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, starting in July.
– University of Alaska
More: seagrant.uaf.edu
Grant for gear monitor
Homer-based North Pacific Fisheries Association has received a $147,400 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Fisheries Innovation Fund grant for a two-year project to use electronic monitoring in the pot and longline cod fisheries.
– Homer News
More: homernews.com
Inland salmon farming
The floating, open-ocean net pens that produce billions of pounds of artificially colored salmon per year also generate inevitable pollution, disease and parasites.
– Oregon Public Broadcasting
More: opb.org
Thursday, May 30, 2013
BECOME A HOLLYWOOD STAR!
We occasionally get calls from Hollywood producers who want to create a new, utterly original reality series. The “original” reality involves – wait for it! – commercial fishing in Alaska. That’s why they call.
The latest producer assistant-type got in touch a couple of days ago. We thought we’d let him make his pitch to you. Let us know (donmcmanman@gmail.com) what happens:
“Skip Film, a TV production company, is looking for boats going after unique types of fish that are challenging to catch and not seen on TV before, crews fishing dangerous, remote grounds and crew members who are authentic but also colorful and fun to watch. If interested, call/text Donovan at 818.438.8290 or email him at djacobs7@socal.rr.com.”
Bringing Chinook home
Researchers say the fish are currently unable to get a fix on their native streams, so they get lost on their way back during the spawning season.
– Field and Stream
More: fieldandstream.com
Obama and Pebble
It may be one of the most important environmental decisions the president faces in his second term.
– Washington Post
More: washingtonpost.com
Golden king crab plentiful
An experiment by Alaska crabbers and scientists has confirmed that golden king crab stocks around the Aleutian Islands are not only stable, they are thriving.
– TheFishSite
More: thefishsite.com
Dipnetters off Copper River
The first opening for that Alaska food fishery, originally set for June 7-9, has been cancelled for a lack of fish.
– Alaska Dispatch
More: alaskadispatch.com
Blame the weather
Unusually late breakup on the Copper and recent soaring temperatures are combining to create conditions that fish don’t like.
– Alaska Public Media
More: alaskapublic.org
Think of fishing jobs
U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to consider the livelihoods of Southwest Washington fishermen in its decisions on an Alaska mining proposal that opponents say would damage the world’s most productive salmon fishery.
– Longview (Wash.) Daily News
More: tdn.com
Tear down Klamath dams
About 100 supporters of the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreements rallied today outside the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, D- Oregon, arguing that getting Klamath River dam removal and $800 million of restoration work through Congress is the best way to end one of the nation's most stubborn water battles.
– The Oregonian
More: oregonlive.com
Alaska Fisheries Report
Coming up this week: Togiak herring wrapped up, cannery workers in Platinum will be making bank this summer, and the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is set to make a final decision on Gulf King bycatch. All that, and yes, more fish-smuggling in the news – at least this time it wasn’t in their pants.
– KMXT, Kodiak
More: kmxt.org
Pebble economic report
The Pebble Limited Partnership has released a new study that seeks to define the potential economic and employment contributions of the proposed Pebble Mine.
– KDLG, Dillingham
More: kdlg.org