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Monday, December 4, 2023

Floating fish freezers

Two companies are building barges to purchase salmon from fishing fleets in Alaska.

Alaska Airlines agrees to buy Hawaiian Airlines in $1.9 billion deal

There’s a crisis in the Yukon River

Founding chair of the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corp. steps down

Bottom-trawl gear to blame for most of this year’s fishery-related killer whale deaths, NOAA says

Researchers explore using AI to count salmon and avoid fishy data


Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Wild fish death spike in B.C.

A salmon conservation group is raising concerns about reported increases in wild fish deaths, primarily herring, at British Columbia’s open-net fish farms.

Honoring the 50th anniversary of women’s integration into the U.S. Coast Guard

Dutch Harbor not equipped for family duty station, says Coast Guard

Eastern Aleutian District Tanner crab fishery closed

Alaska Peninsula salmon season summary

Feds make $106 million available for Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund


Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Better than nothing for Alaska crabbers

The Bristol Bay red king crab season brings a small but
welcome harvest.

Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab season opening is set for Dec. 16

U.S. Coast Guard reckons with a yearslong coverup of sexual abuse

Coast Guard training in massive surf captured in striking video

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

Opinion: Trawling is the most wasteful fishery in Alaska and it is devastating
our oceans


Thursday, December 7, 2023

More West Coast crab delays

With Dungeness crab still slow to put on meat, fishery managers have decided the season opening will be delayed until at least
Dec. 30 from Cape Foulweather, Oregon, north to Canada.

California Dungeness fishery to remain delayed statewide due to
entanglement risk

Bay Area business hauling in, washing boats for free as fishing industry struggles

‘Alaska Fisheries Report’ from KMXT in Kodiak

Ecological forecasts offer new insight into changing conditions that can shift fisheries, drive conflicts


Friday, December 8, 2023

ESA listing for Washington coast Chinook?

NOAA Fisheries finds a petition to list spring-run Chinook salmon as threatened or endangered “may be warranted.”

Biden administration could wade into lawsuit over Southeast Alaska tribal
fishing rights

SBA said to offer low-interest disaster loans to small businesses impacted by California salmon fishery closure

CDFW invites input on new 20-fathom Rockfish Conservation Area
boundary line

Canada’s limits on sea lice in salmon farms don’t measure up

Republican U.S. senators introduce legislation to ban Chinese seafood imports

A group of commercial fishermen has ended up before the Supreme Court


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