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Monday, November 6, 2023

Top management changes at OBI Seafoods

Longtime company CEO Mark Palmer is retiring.

Ash clouds from two volcanoes disrupt air travel in Aleutians, including Unalaska

Report shows impact of Upper Cook Inlet setnet closure

EPA plans to limit or eliminate salmon-killing tire chemical found in preliminary Alaska sampling

Legislation advances to prevent school lunch purchases of Russian fish ‘laundered through China’

Opinion: North Pacific Fishery Management Council is acting to reduce bycatch


Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Kodiak crab quota

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced a Kodiak Tanner crab quota of 3 million pounds, down considerably from last season’s lofty level.

Salmon returns to Alaska’s Bristol Bay expected to drop to more normal levels next year

Pink salmon are thriving in warmer waters, affecting other species, scientists say

Alaska and Greenland collaborate on sustainable fisheries

Ottawa accused of stalling on campaign vow to end ocean fish farms in
British Columbia

U.S. Coast Guard adjusts operations plan to mitigate 2024 workforce shortage


Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Norton Sound salmon season summary

Pink salmon returns were below average for an odd-numbered
year, and chum and coho harvests were approximately half of
last year’s.

U.S. Senate field hearing set for Friday on Native impacts of Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim salmon declines

Pacific Marine Expo gets underway in Seattle

Report slams DFO for failing to properly monitor Canada’s commercial
fishing industry

New funding and coordinated action to help bring California salmon back from the brink

Wider World: A pod of orcas has sunk a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar


Thursday, November 9, 2023

Kotzebue Sound salmon season summary

The 2023 commercial harvest of 141,781 chum salmon was below average, while the price improved a few pennies this year to
65 cents per pound.

First Klamath dam out, removal of other three slated for next year

‘Alaska Fisheries Report’ from KMXT in Kodiak

U.S. Coast Guard formally establishes Base Guam

Opinion: Action is needed now to save Yukon River salmon


Friday, November 10, 2023

An American Seafood Caucus

Members of Congress launch a bipartisan American Seafood Caucus to “provide a forum for seafood policy champions to
find common ground” and ensure U.S. seafood “doesn’t take
a backseat to foreign products.”

Alaska crabbers get creative with pop-up sales, but industry’s fate uncertain

Yukon River Chinook and summer chum season summary

Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River – and so is a way of life

Six places NOAA is using uncrewed systems to support its fisheries missions

Canned tuna is a $40 billion industry. But it’s facing some existential threats


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