Marine safety instructor training set for Sitka
A six-day Marine Safety Instructor Training workshop will be held Sept. 24-29 by the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association at the Public Safety Training...
Campbell Joins Silver Bay Seafoods
Fishing industry management veteran Cora Campbell has joined Silver Bay Seafoods, a seafood processing firm headquartered in Sitka, as chief external affairs officer.The appointment...
Disaster relief approved for 2016 fishery
Disaster relief funding totally $56,361,332 are coming to Alaska in the wake of the low returns in the state’s 2016 Gulf of Alaska pink...
PWS salmon harvest estimate estimated at 1.4 M plus
Commercial salmon harvests in Prince William Sound have reached in excess of 1.4 million fish, with fishermen in the Coghill District alone delivering 514,893...
Study shows subsidies make high seas fishing profitable
A study published in June in the open-access journal Science Advances says as much as 54 percent of high seas fisheries are profitable because...
Fishing vessel had suspected illegal fish
A fishing vessel with one ton of squid ad 80 toms of chum salmon on board detained in international waters east of Japan, is...
Deadline for comments for BOF special meeting is July 9
July 9 is the deadline for written comments for a special meeting of the Alaska Board of Fisheries on four emergency petitions, including one...
PWS weathervane scallop fishery opens
The Prince William Sound area commercial weathervane scallop season in the West Kayak subsection opened on July 1 with a guideline harvest level of...
PWS salmon harvest estimate rises to 2.7 M fish
Prince William Sound’s commercial harvesters delivered an estimated 2,687,658 salmon through June 2, including 1,868,059 chums, 810,906 sockeyes, 7,755 Chinooks, 778 humpies and 160...
Bristol Bay fly fishing academy marks 10th year
Triston Chaney, a 19-year-old college student raised in Dillingham, knew before this year that he loved fly fishing. What he didn’t know is that...
