Red king crab emergency rule request under review
An emergency rule request for closure of the Red King Crab Savings Area to all fishing gear with bottom contact will be up for...
PWSAC will pay $1M in restitution & fines for waste, burn incident
Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp. (PWSAC) has agreed in federal court to pay $1 million in restitution and fines related to a 2018 incident...
BOF takes up Bristol Bay salmon issues
Fifty-two proposals are before the Alaska Board of Fisheries as these fishery managers wrestle with Bristol Bay fishery issues, including the Nushagak-Mulchatna King Salmon...
2023 SE tanner, golden king crab open February 12
Registration must be completed by Jan. 13 for the Southeast Alaska 2023 commercial Tanner and golden king crab fisheries, which open by regulation on...
Future management vote on Nushagak king salmon run moves to March
A decision on future management of Chinook salmon run in Bristol Bay’s Nushagak district has been delayed until the March 2023 meeting of the...
Bob Desautel will continue to lead Pollock group
Bob Desautel, the co-founder, president and chief executive officer of Global Seas and Nina Fisheries, has been reelected chairman of the Association of Genuine...
NOAA/BOEM work to mitigate impact of offshore windy energy development
Two federal agencies have released a Federal Survey Mitigation Strategy aimed at mitigating potential impacts of offshore wind energy development on NOAA Fisheries’ scientific...
Northline Seafoods carves new opportunity
More than two years after severe autumn storm winds beached a $7 million seafood processing barge on the shore of the Bristol Bay watershed,...
ComFish Alaska 2023 set for March 16-18 in Kodiak
The Kodiak Chamber of Commerce is welcoming the fisheries industry once again to participate in ComFish Alaska, billed as the state’s longest running commercial...
Comment sought on proposed abundance-based halibut management plan
A proposed plan for abundance-based management of halibut caught in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI) groundfish fisheries would base the limit on halibut prohibited...
