Troubled cargo ship departs Valdez for Mexico

A cargo ship bound for Mazatlan, Mexico, but detained at Valdez because of leaking oil-filled containers, was cleared to depart Port Valdez on June [...]

Copper River sockeye harvest jumps to 837,000 fish

Some 843,000 sockeyes and 7,200 king salmon have been harvested to date in the Copper River District and a 36-hour commercial opener was under way [...]

Gulf Coast oversight council modeled after PWS RCAC

Citizen representatives from all five states on the Gulf of Mexico coast are moving forward to establish a Gulf of Mexico Regional Citizens' Advisory [...]

Corps sued over approval of oil industry proposal in NPR-A

U.S Army Corps of Engineers approval of an oil industry proposal to build the first drilling site ever inside the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is [...]

Non-pollock trawlers restricted on GOA Chinook bycatch

A measure restricting the incidental catch of Chinook salmon in Gulf of Alaska non-pollock trawl fisheries to 7,500 fish was approved during the June [...]

NMFS has recovery plan for North Pacific right whales

North Pacific right whales, whose numbers have dwindled from thousands to perhaps as few as 30 individuals in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska are [...]

Working to ensure the future of fishing families and fisheries

Marketing association welcomes new executive director

Copper River salmon in high demand

Copper River salmon are a hot item on restaurant menus from Anchorage to Seattle in early summer, and at seafood counters too, with a word to the wise [...]

Begich urges protection of Alaskans' privacy rights

Bipartisan group of senators want secret court opinions declassified

Senators tell Obama 'no" on Pebble

Consensus of Democratic senators from Washington, Oregon and California is that mine would be detrimental to multi-million dollar fisheries industry

Cargo ship being monitored for container leaks

A cargo ship transporting transformers, their accessories and transformer oil is being monitored by the Coast Guard at the Valdez Container Terminal [...]

Tesoro penalized for Clean Air Act violations

Tesoro Alaska Co., Tesoro Corp., and Tesoro Refining & Marketing Co. LLC will pay a $1.1 million penalty for failure to comply with requirements under [...]

Tustumena won't return to service until July 23

Alaska Marine Highway System officials said June 4 that the return of the M/V Tustumena to service has been delayed until July 23. The ferry entered a [...]

Canadian mining company blasts criticism of Pebble mine

EPA extends comment period on Bristol Bay draft watershed assessment to June 30

Two more sentenced in Trident embezzlement case

A Kodiak man and a Texas woman were sentenced June 4 in U.S. District Court in Anchorage for their role in embezzling over half a million dollars from [...]

End urged to partisan redistricting

Two Anchorage legislators are calling for a stop to partisan redistricting, or "gerrymandering," to ensure that all Alaskans receive fair [...]

State publishes report on critical minerals

A compilation of presentations given during the second annual Alaska Strategic and Critical Minerals Summit in Fairbanks in late 2012 has been [...]

Cruise ship passenger medivaced from PWS

A traveler suffering from gastrointestinal distress was medevaced from a cruise ship near Prince William Sound on June 3 and transported by the U.S. [...]

Cook Inlet beluga survey schedule will be biennial

Federal fisheries officials have decided to reduce the frequency of abundance estimate surveys for endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales from annual to [...]

King Cove tribe funded to monitor wildlife

The Agdaagux Tribe of King Cove has received a U.S. Fish and Wildlife grant of nearly $200,000 for local monitoring of ecologically important wildlife [...]