Friction mounts between processors, harvesters over grounds price of salmon
Retail sales of fresh and frozen seafood are dropping in spite of prices, according to a Florida firm studying the complexities of consumer behavior....
PWS harvest mounts, reaching 18.6M salmon
Commercial sockeye salmon harvests continue to mount slowly, but are leveling off earlier than in recent years, with the preliminary Prince William Sound harvest...
Surge in pinks brings PWS harvest to 27.2 M salmon
Commercially caught salmon deliveries in Prince William Sound rose to 27.2 million fish through Tuesday, buoyed by an overall preliminary harvest of 21 million...
Feds urged to address climate changes impacting coastal communities
Alaska fisheries and environmental entities are urging federal officials mandated with developing an ocean justice strategy to address inequities plaguing the ocean and coasts...
PWS humpy catch nears 25M as statewide commercial salmon harvest tops 100M
Those humpies just kept coming, and the harvest of cohos rose as well. As of Tuesday, the commercial salmon catch for Prince William Sound...
USDA buys $68M of wild Alaska salmon, rockfish
Federal agriculture officials recently purchased 3.7 million pounds of wild Alaska sockeye salmon, as four-ounce fillet portions, plus 716,800 cases of half-pound cans worth...
Board of Fisheries agenda change requests due by Aug. 14
Officials with the Alaska Board of Fisheries are reminding the public that agenda change requests (ACRs) for the 2023-2024 meeting cycle are due by...
PWS Seine fleet reacts to low prices
Halfway through the Prince William Sound seine season, captains and crew are reacting to a dramatic drop in pink and chum salmon prices. The...
Harvesters seek better salmon prices as Trident says it’ll only buy from Cordova South...
For salmon aficionados looking to fill their freezers with fillets of wild Alaska salmon there is an abundance of retail fish available, at prices...
Crab, groundfish and salmon bycatch issues are on federal fish council agenda
Crab, groundfish and salmon issues are all up for discussion at the October meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council from Oct. 5...
