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Monday, June 13, 2022

Sitka plant closure

Sitka Salmon Shares is not going out of business, radio station KCAW reports, but the decision to close the plant represents a retooling of the company’s original business model.

60-foot crabber F/V Western Breeze sinks in Newport harbor

Fiber cable headed to Unalaska to bring high-speed Internet to region

Mishap at Anchorage hatchery leads to death of thousands of king salmon smolt

Fishermen join forces amid Humboldt County offshore wind development

Sea turtles in Alaska?


Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Alaska salmon update

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute has posted its first salmon harvest update of the season.

USDA purchases $20.2 million in canned red salmon from Peter Pan, OBI

State to put opioid emergency kits in seafood plants and harbors across Southeast Alaska

Chugach Ranger will be unwrapped in time for Wrangell’s Fourth of July

Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers sets its fourth annual meeting


Wednesday, June 15, 2022

West Coast halibut opener

The year’s first three-day commercial halibut season begins
June 28 in federal waters off the West Coast.

Unusual thunderstorms ignite fires around Bristol Bay

19,500-acre fire now 9 miles from Dillingham

Alaska fishery managers call for deeper look at salmon bycatch, but decline to tighten rules

Lowest tide in more than a decade coming to Puget Sound

Sunken Newport fishing vessel Western Breeze raised

Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission to consider ODFW budget request

Opinion: Alaska’s salmon bounty coming at B.C.’s expense

Opinion: EPA must use Clean Water Act authority to protect Bristol Bay


Thursday, June 16, 2022

Alaska’s snow crab crash

Consensus is lacking about why the Bering Sea stock declined, but models suggest temperature increases linked to climate change.

Aerial survey wrapping up for Southeast Alaska sea otters

‘Alaska Fisheries Report’ from KMXT in Kodiak

First Nation leaders in B.C. demand audience with fisheries minister

Drought again brings high mortality for Northern California salmon swimming to ocean

Wider World: Concerns raised over possible spread of Pacific pink salmon
in Ireland


Friday, June 17, 2022

A buck for Bristol Bay

A major processor, Peter Pan, announces a base price of
$1 per pound for sockeye this season.

U.S. Coast Guard medevacs man from mothership near Cold Bay, Alaska

U.S. Coast Guard medevacs injured crewmember near Esther Island, Alaska

Cook Inlet salmon season hinges on pending court decision

North Pacific Council June newsletter

Pacific Council June decision summary

California Fish and Wildlife trucks salmon smolts around adverse river conditions


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