Fish Factor: 1M+ pounds of old Alaska fishing nets, lines recycled
Over one million pounds of old fishing nets and lines from Alaska have made it to recycling markets so far, where they are remade into plastic pellets and fibers.
Harvesters sign up to report on changes in fisheries, ocean conditions
Commercial harvesters are pitching in to provide their observations on ecological changes in fisheries and ocean conditions, to help pave the way for climate ready fisheries of the future through Skipper Science, a project of a tribal government in the Aleutians and SalmonState.
BOF leaves hatcheries intact, passes harvest strategy for PWS Tanner crab
Alaska Board of Fisheries members took on several dozen proposals related to hatchery management, shellfish, drift and setnet fisheries during its Nov. 30-Dec. 6 meeting in Cordova. The board left hatchery issues largely intact, approved a harvest strategy for Prince William Sound Tanner crab and approved use of drift gillnets for certain subsistence salmon harvests.
Veteran harvester speaks on the joys, challenges of fisheries
As a California college student back in the 1980s, Theresa Peterson decided to take a chance getting a job at a seafood cannery in Alaska for the summer. She figured that because she hates the cold, she would never go back again.
Trident Seafoods purchases 300-foot at-sea processor
Trident Seafoods has reached agreement with Aleutian Spray Fisheries Inc. to acquire the 300-foot at-sea processor C/P Starbound for use in its wild Alaska Pollock and Pacific whiting fisheries, the company announced.
BOF approves NVE subsistence salmon proposals
Two subsistence salmon proposals from the Native Village of Eyak were approved with requested modifications during the recent meeting of the Alaska Board of Fisheries in Cordova, resulting in improved opportunities for a greater subsistence catch.
New restrictions would cut halibut bycatch in groundfish fisheries
A six-year battle over the incidental catch of an estimated 2.8 million pounds of halibut annually by trawlers in the Bering Sea has prompted federal fisheries managers to put new regulations in place to curb that harvest by up to 35 percent.
Declining salmon resource prompts cry to decrease incidental catch
Community organizers from Alaska concerned over the millions of pounds of wild salmon and halibut caught incidentally by factory trawlers off Alaska while abundance of both kinds of fish are in decline took their message to consumers in Seattle on Saturday, Dec. 11.
Bids sought for Pollock test fishery
Bids are being accepted through Jan. 7 by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for a vessel to conduct a test fishery using pelagic trawl to harvest up to 900,000 pounds of walleye Pollock in registration Area E of Prince William Sound.
Pollock pelagic trawl fishery opens Jan. 20
A directed commercial fisheries opener for walleye Pollock using pelagic trawl gear opens in Prince William Sound Area E at noon Jan. 20 with a guideline harvest level of 6.44 million pounds.
