Pollock producers looking to build brand identity
A trade group aiming to build the brand identity for wild Alaska Pollock in North America has issued a request for partnership proposals to...
New agreement reached on coastwide halibut quota
Commissioners of the International Pacific Halibut Commission reached a new agreement in Victoria, British Columbia on Feb. 1 on a coast wide Pacific halibut...
Fish Factor: ALFA offers crewmember apprenticeships
Deckhands wanted -
The call is out for Alaskans interested in learning firsthand about commercial fishing.It’s the second year for the Crewmember Apprenticeship program hosted by the Alaska...
ADF&G updates information on Tanner crab fishery
State fisheries officials have slated the Commissioner’s Permit tanner crab fishery in the Western and Eastern Districts of Prince William Sound to run from...
State waters Pacific cod season opens to longline gear
Harvesting of Pacific cod in the Prince William Sound area parallel fishery closed at noon Feb. 7, coinciding with the National Marine Fisheries Service...
Rabung named director of commercial fisheries
Alaska Commissioner of Fish and Game Doug Vincent-Lang has appointed Sam Rabung as director of commercial fisheries, and Dave Rutz to serve as director...
Trident, True North funded for wild Alaska Pollock project
Trident Seafoods and True North Seafoods have been awarded grants from the Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers to develop new products and further...
Markets look good on eve of 2019 salmon season
Heading into the 2019 salmon season markets are looking good as global demand exceeds supply.That’s due in part to constraints on the world’s biggest...
BOF takes up finfish issues in February in Anchorage
Thirty-three proposals related to Alaska Peninsula, Chignik and Aleutian Islands finfish issues will be on the agenda when the Alaska Board of Fisheries meets...
Steller sea lions, humpback whales recovering under ESA
A peer-reviewed study published in mid-January in the
academic journal PLOS ONE shows that eastern Steller sea lions, Hawaiian humpback
whales, Southern sea otters and North...
