Margaret Bauman
Margaret Bauman is a veteran Alaska journalist focused on covering fisheries and environmental issues. Bauman has been writing for The Cordova Times since 2010. You can reach her at fisheriesreporter@gmail.com.
Trident Seafoods marks 50th anniversary
A major seafood processing company that began with a single vessel operating out of Kodiak in 1973 marked its 50th anniversary on Jan. 31,...
Repeal of Alaska Roadless Rule will halt much development in Tongass
A Biden administration decision finalizing protections for Tongass National Forest, which restores longstanding roadless protections to the 9.37 million acres of rainforest, is drawing...
EPA decision on Bristol Bay area mine could doom project
An Environmental Protection Agency decision blocking the proposed Pebble Mine at a site abutting the Bristol Bay watershed could spell an end to the...
Above average run of kings forecast for Copper River
Early state forecasts for the Copper River - Prince William Sound region commercial fisheries are bright for Chinook salmon in the Copper River, sockeyes...
Participants sought to test electronic logbooks in Gulf of Alaska
Real Time Data — a software firm bent on revolutionizing the collection, reporting and management of commercial fishing — is looking for harvesters to...
Coast Guard evacuates injured fishermen near Dutch Harbor
A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aircrew, forward deployed to Cold Bay from Kodiak, evacuated a mariner with a hand injury on Tuesday from...
Pat Simpson honored for research to repurpose plastic ocean wastes
An innovative engineer with Cordova roots is being recognized by the Alaska SeaLife Center for his work to create plastic-based lumber from marine debris...
Tanner crab fishermen want higher price for their catch
Tanner crab harvesters, whose catch is being offered at $2.50 a pound in the Kodiak area compared to $8.30 a pound a year ago,...
SE Alaska trollers speak out to protect fisheries
Southeast Alaska trollers engaged in a fight to continue winter and summer commercial Chinook salmon fisheries say they have reduced their king harvest by...
Long-lasting toxic chemicals found in bodies of endangered killer whales
Canadian researchers examining the bodies of Southern Resident orca whales stranded along the coast of British Columbia have found toxic chemicals used in production...
