Fish Factor: Salmon season looks very promising
A brighter outlook for Alaska’s upcoming salmon season just got even better.Markets are looking good, the statewide salmon catch forecast of 204 million is...
Study tracks 34 years of Bering Sea fish populations
A newly released study from the Alaska Fisheries Science Center tracks distribution shifts of groundfish in the Eastern Bering Sea from 1982 to 2015.Researchers...
UFA elects four at-large board members
United Fishermen of Alaska has announced the election of Sue Aspelund, Rhonda Hubbard, Bruce Schactler and Zachary Hill as at-large board members.They will serve...
USGS offers major aquatic carbon flux assessment
A new report from the U.S. Geological Survey says that while freshwater ecosystems cover only a small area of the land surface in Alaska...
Fisheries trust bill gains steam in Legislature
Numerous studies over the past decade have highlighted Alaska’s “graying of the fleet” (the average age of permit holders is 50), and the lack...
AYFN advocates for next generation harvesters
Harvesting skills are a given, but today’s commercial fishermen also need to know their way through the business side of the industry, from marketing...
Coast Guard rescues 3 near Hooper Bay
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew and Alaska State Troopers came to the aid of three men in a disabled fishing boat near Hooper...
Westward Seafoods settles over Clean Air Act violations
Federal authorities have settled with Westward Seafoods over alleged Clean Air Act violations at the processor’s Captain’s Bay seafood plant in Dutch Harbor.The settlement...
New Bristol Bay advocacy group formed
A new commercial fishermen’s advocacy group, Sustaining Bristol Bay Fisheries, has announced its formation as an entity to amplify the voice of commercial fishing...
Weak run of kings could impact sockeye harvests
Forecasts of a very weak run of Chinook salmon have commercial harvesters worried that they will lose a lot of Copper River sockeyes to...
