Two more industry veterans join Peter Pan Seafood team
Seafood industry veterans Michael Mussell and Matt Frazier have joined Peter Pan Seafood LLC in Anchorage as executive vice president of projects, ingredients and canning and regional sales manager respectively, the company announced on Tuesday, April 19.
Proposed rule would revise regs for Pacific halibut quota
The National Marine Fisheries Service has issued a proposed rule to revise regulations for the Individual fishing quota (IFQ) Pacific halibut fisheries for 2022, with a 14-day comment period ending on May 4.
NOAA Fisheries devised new tool for monitoring movement of marine fish
A new Distribution Mapping and Analysis Portal online and open to the public is helping NOAA Fisheries to better track the location and movement of marine fish in U.S. waters.
ADF&G releases statewide forecasts, harvest projections for 2022
State fisheries officials have released their annual statewide salmon run forecast and commercial harvest projection report, which projects a 2022 record sockeye salmon harvest of 74 million fish mostly from Bristol Bay, plus a substantially smaller harvest of pink salmon than occurred in 2021.
Harvest reporting requirement in place for PWS
Members of the Alaska Board of Fisheries have adopted several proposals establishing new sport, personal use and subsistence fishing regulations for shellfish in Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet and the North Gulf Coast.
NOAA names Kodiak woman to Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee
Commerce secretary Gina Raimondo has appointed seven new members to NOAA’s Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee, including Natasha Hayden of Kodiak, vice president of lands and natural resources for the Afognak Native Corp.
OBI stands ready to purchase Kenai Peninsula salmon
OBI Seafoods officials say all their buying stations on the Kenai Peninsula will be open, paying competitive prices and offering fishermen support services as well for the upcoming salmon fishery.
Gift of wild caught salmon fills food bank’s freezers
An unanticipated gift of over 95,000 pounds of individually portions wild caught Alaska salmon from the Wild Alaskan Company has filled their freezers to near capacity, says Mike Reusser, chief operating officer for the Food Bank of Alaska.
NPFMC wants more information on decline in king crab stocks
Two decades into the decline of Bristol Bay red king crab, with stocks now too low for a commercial fishery, the fight continues at the North Pacific Fishery Management Council over what protections to take for the crab in danger and how soon to do it.
Fifth vessel joins 2022 Pan-Pacific winter high seas expedition
A fifth vessel has joined the fleet for the 2022 Pan-Pacific Winter High Seas Expedition, the latest major research effort of the International Year of the Salmon, to learn more about the lives of salmon during the marine phase of their life history during winter in the North Pacific Ocean.
