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Monday, October 31, 2022

Big guns to the rescue off Hawaii

A disabled commercial fishing vessel gets a tow – from a guided missile destroyer.

Norton Sound salmon season summary

Nationwide labor shortage hits Alaska tugboats

Congressional chairs applaud plan to hold first Pacific offshore wind lease sale

Willapa Bay green crab war enters new phase

Endangered Species Act reviews for some Northwest salmon, steelhead show promise for recovery

Commentary: 460,000 miles of fishing line and 14 billion hooks lost at sea
each year

OPINION: Young would be proud of Peltola as a successor


Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Alaska fish politics

Congressional candidates agree bycatch is a problem, but they differ on how to solve it.

Peter Pan owner Rodger May invests in farming startup LocalCoho

Alaska salmon hatchery operator to pay $1M, plead guilty to illegally burning waste oil

First aid at sea workshop offered Nov. 4 at Seattle Fishermen’s Terminal

As Alaska cancels its snow crab season, Oregon’s fishing industry feels the effect

China fishing fleet defied U.S. in standoff on high seas


Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Coast Guard critique

The U.S. Government Accountability Office says additional actions are needed to improve commercial fishing vessel safety efforts.

USCG tweet notes ‘large infrastructure projects’ underway at Base Kodiak

ALFA to host fishermen’s expo next week

NOAA awards $4.2 million to study climate stressors facing West
Coast Dungeness

National Fisheries Institute names new president and CEO


Thursday, November 3, 2022

Bristol Bay salmon forecast

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is projecting the 2023 sockeye harvest will be much smaller than last season’s record-breaker.

‘Alaska Fisheries Report’ from KMXT in Kodiak

Paul Doremus, formerly a top official with NMFS, joins Trident Seafoods

Wider World: New Brunswick looks to make PFDs mandatory for
fishing industry

Opinion: Make tribes equal funding partners with Washington in salmon
recovery efforts


Friday, November 4, 2022

Alaska bycatch under scrutiny

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council names the members of its new Salmon Bycatch Committee.

‘Alaska Fisheries Report’ from KMXT in Kodiak

Paul Doremus, formerly a top official with NMFS, joins Trident Seafoods

Wider World: New Brunswick looks to make PFDs mandatory for
fishing industry

Opinion: Make tribes equal funding partners with Washington in salmon
recovery efforts


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