Alaska marks a fatality-free commercial fishing season
U.S. Coast Guard officials are congratulating Alaska’s fishing industry for a second fatality-free commercial fishing season in fiscal year 2022.Scott Wilwert, commercial fishing vessel...
PWS commercial herring fisheries remain closed
Commercial herring fisheries in Prince William Sound will remain closed through June 30, 2023, due to estimated spawning biomass being below threshold, say area...
Project Appleseed returns to Cordova
Project Appleseed, a non-profit organization that teaches rifle marksmanship skills that date back hundreds of years, came to the area for training from Oct....
New fisheries exhibit opens at Homer’s Pratt Museum
Salmon Culture: Kachemak Bay Connections, a new exhibit celebrating salmon as the common bond across cultures and generations, has opened at Homer’s Pratt Museum through Dec. 17.
PWSRCAC take stand against dispersants
Board members of the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council are taking a firm stand against use of chemical dispersants in an oil...
EVOSTC approves merging habitat, research funds
Members of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council have approved the merger of two separate accounts of federal funds for habitat protection and research related to the 1989 disaster in Prince William Sound for fiscal years 2023 through 2026.
Local Catch Network forms bonds between small boat harvesters
Several dozen small boat harvesters, marketing directors, researchers and fisheries consultants concluded a seafood summit at a Southcentral Alaska ski resort on Monday with optimism spurred by networking to resolve the challenges facing their industry.
NPFMC takes up crab rebuilding plans
Harvesters of shellfish in the Bering Sea are facing a second year of multi-million-dollar losses with the demise of Bristol Bay red king crab,...
Western Alaska moves into recovery mode
Flood waters are receding in storm-battered western Alaska, where wind and water wreaked havoc over the weekend. Communities in the region traditionally pull together...
ASLC treating harbor seal, sea otter pup
Alaska SeaLife Center’s Wildlife Response Program in Seward has two new patients: a harbor seal pup who climbed aboard a charter fishing boat in Resurrection Bay, and a sea otter pup found vocalizing on top of his moribund mother on a remote beach in the western Kenai Peninsula.
