Winter salmon study planned for Gulf of Alaska
Plans are underway for the International Year of the Salmon in 2019, sponsored in part by the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission.The NPAFC has for...
Fish Factor: Women are everywhere in Alaska seafood industry
Alaska appears to be an exception in terms of gender parity at all levels of its seafood industry.Women comprise roughly half of the world’s...
Fish Factor: Season may be a bust for most harvesters
Alaska’s salmon fisheries continue to lag alarmingly in several regions, with overall catches down by a third from the same time last year.The single...
Trade war impacts seafood going to and from China
Trump’s trade war now includes tariffs on seafood going to and from China.China is Alaska’s biggest seafood buyer purchasing 54 percent of Alaska seafood...
Fish Factor: China’s new tariff on seafood raises concerns
Shockwaves rocked the Alaska seafood industry when China announced on June 15 that it will add an additional 25 percent tariff on seafood imports...
Fish Factor: Alaska Net Hack Challenge coming to Anchorage
Plastics in recycled fishing nets are being used to make an amazing array of products around the globe and Alaska plans to get in...
Markets are standing by for Alaska hagfish
Hagfish is the real name for what is commonly called slime eels and it could become a viable fishery with ready markets standing by.Little...
Fish Factor: Nice pay day coming for salmon harvesters
Forces are aligned for a nice pay day for Alaska’s salmon fishermen.There is no backlog from last season in cold storages, a lower harvest...
Fish Factor: Fishing families study coming to Kodiak
The way that fisheries are managed determines the daily tempo for fishing families’ lives. Managers set the dates and times, the when’s and where’s...
Fish Factor: Projections out for summer fishing season
Alaska’s 2018 salmon season officially got underway this week with the first 12-hour opener on May 17 for sockeyes and kings returning to the...
