International Year of the Salmon is underway

2018 was a mixed year for Alaska salmon. Bristol Bay saw its biggest run on record when 62.3 million sockeye salmon returned to the bay....

Exercise Northern Edge on schedule for May

Exercise Northern Edge 2019 is on schedule for May, with details still being worked out, but the operation is expected to be similar in...

Commercial fisheries scramble to get permitted

A government shutdown called by President Trump to force funding of a border wall is now impacting Alaska’s multi-million-dollar seafood industry, which relies on...
Coho Salmon

Carbon emissions pose threat to salmon

Salmon depend on their sense of smell to detect and avoid predators, find prey and return to their natal streams to spawn and die...

Sea Grant’s Torie Baker resigns

Alaska Sea Grant’s veteran Cordova agent Torie Baker has resigned her post effective at the end of December to deal with family matters in...

UBC study identifies destructive fisheries

A University of British Columbia study says industrial fisheries who rely on bottom trawling threw 437 million tons of fish worth $560 billion overboard...

Alaska Pollock Protein Noodles are a hit

Wild Alaska Pollock proved the key ingredient in Trident Seafoods’ road to success in the 2018 Alaska Symphony of Seafood.Trident’s Protein Noodles, made with...

Senate okays vessel ballast water relief

Legislation to relieve commercial fishing vessel owners and operators from federal and state regulations for ballast water and other incidental discharges has passed the...

Warm water was big driver in historically low harvest

In a year woefully down on commercial salmon harvests, the Copper River catch proved the second lowest in 100 years, while the statewide catch...

Two fishermen sentenced for harassing, killing Steller sea lions

Two fishermen were sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for harassing and killing 15 Steller sea lions with shotguns and obstructing an investigation into...
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