NOAA Fisheries names international affairs director
Alexa Cole has been appointed as the new director for NOAA Fisheries’ Office of International Affairs and Seafood Inspection.
BOF to consider limits on hatchery cost recovery
Forty-seven proposals are on the agenda for the Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting at the Alaska Vocational Technical Center in Seward Dec. 10-13, including one to cap the number of each salmon species harvested for cost recovery in private nonprofit salmon hatcheries.
Observer fees will increase in GOA, BSAI
Fees will increase starting in 2021 for partial coverage observer programs of commercial fishing boats throughout the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands.
Sport fishing restricted to ensure escapement
Sport fishing for coho salmon in Copper River Highway streams is reduced to a one fish per day and limit of two in possession through Dec. 31, in an effort by state fisheries biologists to help increase escapement in the Copper River Delta drainage.
Deadline approaches for BOF agenda change requests
Agenda change requests from the public, advisory committees and agencies for the 2019/2020 meeting cycle of the Alaska Board of Fisheries must be received...
No commercial opener for Copper River salmon fishery
Faced with a sonar count that is the ninth lowest on record since 1978, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said the Copper...
