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Monday, October 3, 2022

Magnuson-Stevens debate

A pending rewrite of the nation’s top fisheries law navigates rough partisan waters.

Both sides dig in as EPA’s final decision on Pebble mine nears

Pandemic poaching sets B.C. rockfish conservation effort back years

McDonald’s sourcing director to talk Filet-O-Fish at Alaska pollock
industry meeting

Dan Magone, Alaska marine salvage expert, dives into memoir writing

Final federal report on saving salmon calls breaching Snake dams a
‘centerpiece action’

Opinion: Make salmon restoration a policy and budget priority in
Washington state


Tuesday, October 4, 2022

From Dutch Harbor to the North Pole

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy reaches the pole after traversing the frozen Arctic Ocean.

Gubernatorial candidates kick off fisheries debates in Kodiak, but Dunleavy
is no-show

Mary Peltola’s fish man

Bristol Bay sockeye runs break records, but local permit ownership has declined for decades

Aleutian Airways slated to begin Unalaska service next month

Ilwaco port manager resigns, interim to be named

As the U.S. explores building offshore wind farm in Oregon, concerns arise


Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Alaska’s congressional race

During a fisheries debate at Kodiak, Mary Peltola was the only
one of four candidates favoring a House bill to revise the
Magnuson-Stevens Act.

NMFS institutes minimum age policy for halibut, sablefish quota transfers

Prince William Sound RCAC updates position on dispersant use during an oil spill

U.S. Coast Guard moves forward with offshore patrol cutter work

U.S. is not harvesting as many fish as it could, driving up imports


Thursday, October 6, 2022

Warships off Alaska

A U.S. Coast Guard captain describes an encounter with Chinese and Russian naval vessels.

Magnuson-Stevens rewrite is moving in House, but prospects in Senate don’t look good

Buttigieg visits King County to announce new program to help Northwest salmon

Murkowski unveils ‘working waterfronts framework’

ODFW to host commercial Dungeness crab public meeting in North Bend

Commentary: Alaska’s salmon hatcheries are good for business


Friday, October 7, 2022

How Southeast Alaska driftnetters fared this season

Traditional harvests of all species, except sockeye salmon, were
below recent 10-year averages, the state Department of Fish and Game reports.

Feds working on new plan for contentious Cook Inlet fishery

Effort to fund and build new marine haulout in Sitka scores big election win

‘Alaska Fisheries Report’ from KMXT in Kodiak

The last Salish Sea reefnetters don’t want to be the last

U.S. representatives announce establishment of bipartisan Aquaculture Caucus


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