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.
BBRSDA launches another season of research to improve salmon quality
Bristol Bay sockeye salmon marketers, harvesters and processors are collaborating again in the summer of 2023 on a collaborative research project with a Texas...
Statewide commercial salmon harvest tops 14M fish
Millions of wild salmon heading for their spawning grounds in Alaska are being greeted by commercial fishermen with drift gillnets and setnets, harvesting upwards...
NOAA: Public benefits of recovering beluga whales outweigh costs
When it comes down to helping endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales to recover, NOAA says the public’s concern for the survival of these marine...
Copper River wild salmon harvest tops half million mark
Copper River wild salmon catches are still climbing, in the wake of two closures, and the harvest from Monday’s 36-hour opener still to be...
Proposals for GAPP global partnership funding due by July 25
A nonprofit entity that advocates for the domestic pollock fisheries is seeking proposals through July 25 for its global partnership funding to bring new...
Climate change prompts questions on future of Pacific cod
New research compiled by NOAA Fisheries shows that adult Pacific cod are moving into the northern Bering Sea in summer months due to warming...
Copper River harvest ebbs as other PWS fisheries open
Shopping days for those prized Copper River red salmon are numbered now as the run ebbs and other Prince William Sound commercial fisheries open,...
Dunleavy cuts $87.5 M out of education funding
Gov. Mike Dunleavy has signed the fiscal year 2024 state operating and capital budgets into law, with no specific comment about the $87.5 million...
ASLC’s group of harbor seal pup patients swells to nine
Five more newborn harbor seal pups from the Kenai and Alaska peninsulas have been admitted to the Alaska SeaLife Center’s (ASLC) Wildlife Response Program,...
Offshore aquaculture legislation targeted as threat to wild fish
Bipartisan legislation promoting offshore aquaculture has been reintroduced in Congress by two senators advocating for NOAA to establish comprehensive standards for offshore aquaculture in...
