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Monday, December 18, 2023

How Trident’s plans are playing in Kodiak

Fishermen and the city mayor react to the company’s decision to sell the local processing plant.

Kodiak salmon outlook looks ‘weak’ for pinks but ‘strong’ for sockeye

Trident Seafoods finds doing business in China requires watchdogging processors

Andy Wink is leaving his position at helm of Bristol Bay association

Tribes celebrate historic deal with White House that could save Pacific Northwest salmon

Opinion: Help Alaska’s fisheries by reducing methane emissions

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

More waiting for West Coast crabbers

With Dungeness in the vicinity of the Columbia mouth still lacking meat, fishery managers have pushed the commercial crabbing start into 2024.

Chignik sockeye harvest expected to be ‘strong’ in 2024

Alaska congressional delegation steps up efforts to halt U.S. imports of Russian seafood processed in China

Researchers present early findings on Bristol Bay hydroelectricity project

The largest-ever dam removal project is underway. Will it be enough to secure a sacred river?

Opinion: We’re working to find the causes of Yukon salmon declines

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Alaska trawlers fight back

As expected, a Bering Sea bottom trawl fleet has sued the
National Marine Fisheries Service over an action to tighten
halibut bycatch limits.

Cape Foulweather to Cape Falcon opens Dec. 31 to commercial Dungeness
crab fishing

Dungeness crab season for California’s far north counties will open Jan. 5

Here’s the Togiak herring forecast, if anyone cares

Sale of Trident processing plant raises questions for Ketchikan

America is larger now, by declaration of State Department

Thursday, December 21, 2023

Oregon Coast crabbing commences

The commercial Dungeness season is off to a good start ahead of the holidays.

Prince William Sound pollock trawl fishery to open Jan. 20 with quota of
9.6 million pounds

Anchorage Assembly rejects renaming Port of Alaska after late U.S.
Rep. Don Young

Ocean Beauty Seafoods plans sale of its distribution business

Fewer workers in fine dining may cut into seafood processor profits

Report details 37 known killer whale entanglements in Alaska over three decades

Rep. Hoyle’s bill to support commercial fishing in port infrastructure
passes Congress

Friday, December 22, 2023

Stupendous Sitka herring outlook

The quota for the 2024 Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery is gigantic at 81,246 tons.

Biden expands sanctions to include clampdown on U.S. imports of key Russian seafood processed in China

Alaska Sen. Sullivan: U.S. Treasury finally takes action on Russian seafood imports

Southeast Alaska Chinook stocks expected to be low again in 2024

2024 ComFish Alaska trade show set for April 11-13 in Kodiak

NOAA Fisheries releases ecosystem status reports for Alaska

In a major shift, Northwest tribes – not U.S. officials – will control salmon recovery funds

Oregon’s Commercial Fishery Permit Board to meet Dec. 27

Can freshness be frozen?

Opinion: Porcaro preaches about budget discipline without mentioning his do-little $136,000 state job

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