NOAA Fisheries issues finding on West Coast Chinook salmon
NOAA officials have released their 90-day report on a petition that urges different Oregon and California-based fisheries to be classified as threatened or endangered.The...
Silver Bay Seafoods acquires Orca Bay Foods
Silver Bay Seafoods announced on Tuesday that the acquisition of the Seattle-based, value-added food processing company Orca Bay Foods — whose market includes crab,...
Oceana: Proposed expansion of seafood monitoring long overdue
A federal proposal to expand seafood import monitoring is getting kudos from the ocean conservancy entity Oceana, which says Americans overwhelmingly support policies to...
Prohibited live European green crabs confiscated in Washington
Washington state fisheries officials say they confiscated live European green crabs from a Seattle market that the seller was unaware were classified as a...
NFWF grants will fund monitoring, reporting program
Grants totaling $3.7 million from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will help support data modernization...
2023 Eastern Aleutian District Tanner crab fishery begins Jan. 15
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) shellfish managers say the Eastern Aleutian District commercial Tanner crab season will open at noon on...
NOAA proposes enlarging Seafood Import Monitoring Program
NOAA Fisheries has proposed expanding its Seafood Import Monitoring Program, a risk-based program for targeted species of seafood imported for domestic sales, from some...
Legislation would reestablish National Seafood Council
The $1.65 trillion bill approved by Congress in late December to fund the federal government for the 2023 fiscal year contains language in a...
Millions for seafood issues in omnibus bill
A nearly $1.7 billion appropriations bill passed by Congress this past week includes millions of dollars in funds for fisheries, covering everything from fisheries...
Chignik, Alaska Peninsula, Aleutian Island comment deadline for BOF meeting is Feb. 3
Dozens of proposals are up for consideration at the Alaska Board of Fisheries (BOF) meeting in Anchorage from Feb. 20 to Feb. 25, with...
