BOF meets at Kodiak Jan. 10-13
Commercial tanner crab, groundfish and salmon are on the agenda for the Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting in Kodiak Jan. 10-13.The session begins on...
Fish Factor: Fishing picks and pans for 2016
The start of 2017 marks the 26th year for this weekly column that targets news for and about Alaska’s seafood industry. The goal is...
NOAA aims to reduce catch of non-targeted species
Federal fisheries officials have released a new national plan intended to reduce bycatch and bycatch mortality, in support of sustainably managed fisheries and to...
Other options sought to address GOA trawl bycatch
Federal fisheries managers will take no action for the indefinite future on a proposed Gulf of Alaska trawl bycatch management plan intended to provide...
Alaska Marine Science Symposium is Jan 23-27
The 2017 Alaska Marine Science Symposium opens Jan. 23 at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, with five keynote speeches fill the agenda for...
NOAA Fisheries has busy week in Alaska
Enforcement officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration apparently had a busy week in Alaska in late December.The Alaska Division of NOAA’s enforcement...
HACCP workshop set for Feb. 13-14
A Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point workshop to prepare seafood processors to develop an approved HACCP plan will be offered Feb. 13-14 at the...
USDA seeks bids to sell Pollock
Federal agriculture officials are soliciting bids for 554,400 pounds of frozen Alaska Pollock for use in the National School Lunch Program and other federal...
Obama bans offshore drilling in most Arctic waters
President Obama has withdrawn from future mineral extraction a vast area of the Arctic Ocean, in an effort to protect ecologically sensitive marine life...
Applicants sought for PWS Pollock test fishery
State fisheries managers are soliciting bids to contract a vessel to conduct a test fishery to harvest up to 900,000 pounds of Pollock in...
