PWS harvests exceed 69M salmon
Late season harvesters were still pulling in coho salmon in Prince William Sound in mid-September, with the preliminary Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s...
More Alaska Pollock products are on the way
More new wild Alaska Pollock products will be coming to retail markets, thanks to incentives from the Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers (GAPP), which has invested over $1.6 million in 14 seafood partners to create new ways to enjoy this sustainable white fish.
Tanner crab abundance growing in Westward region of Alaska
Unlike in the Bering Sea, there’s good news for crab in the Gulf of Alaska. A huge cohort of Tanner crab that biologists have been tracking in the Westward region for three years showed up again in this summer’s survey.
Board of Fisheries meets Oct. 20-21 in Anchorage
The agenda for the Alaska Board of Fisheries work session at the Egan Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage Oct. 20-21 may include topics ranging from the election of officers and agenda change requests to petitions, but no regulatory action will be taken.
NOAA grant aims at bycatch reduction
A new project underway by the International Pacific Halibut Commission aims to identify potential methods for protecting hook-caught fish from whale depredation, plus catch protection designs for use in current longline fishing techniques.
WRST Subsistence Resource Commission meets Oct. 5-6
The Wrangell-St. Elias Subsistence Resource Commission will consider issues related to subsistence hunting and fishing in Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve when it meets via teleconference from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 5, and Wednesday, Oct. 6 from 9 a.m. until end of business.
Net Your Problem recycling reaches 1M pounds
Four years after former North Pacific groundfish observer Nicole Baker got inspired to find a way to recycle fishing nets from Unalaska she’s already reached one million pounds of recycled fishing gear and looking for more.
Fish Factor: ‘Smart buoys’ trac, monitor deployed fishing gear
Lost fishing gear — be it nets, lines or pots — continues “ghost fishing” forever, causing a slow death to countless marine creatures and financial losses to fishermen.
AMSEA launches ‘Cath Fish. Not COVID’
Alaska Marine Safety Education Association is making its message simple and direct: Catch Fish. Not COVID. The marine safety education entity in Sitka announced its vaccination promotion campaign on Tuesday, Sept. 28.
AVCP urges field hearing on state of salmon
A nonprofit tribal consortium representing 56 member tribes in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is urging Alaska’s congressional delegation to hold a field hearing on the state of salmon in Alaska.
