SeafoodSource1d
Alaska’s salmon fishery passes MSC audits, marking 25 years of certification
The successful audit means Alaska’s salmon fishery has managed to maintain its MSC certification for 25 years after ...
SeafoodSource2d
NPFMC adjusts proposals to reduce chum salmon bycatch by Alaskan pollock trawlers
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) has advanced a set of five alternatives for reducing chum salmon bycatch ...
The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more ...
Undercurrent News12d
US pollock regulators take hard look at capping salmon bycatch in Bering Sea
We need to craft our approach to specifically addressing minimizing Western Alaska chum salmon, taking into account those times and areas of when they occur’ — Trent Hartill, American Seafoods ...
Peninsula Clarion on MSN8d
Kenai River king salmon fishing closed entirely for 3rd year
The announcements describe closures for king salmon fishing on the Kenai River and areas of Cook Inlet, bait and gear ...
Alaska Public Media14d
The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
Over the last 50 years, hundreds of Alaska’s most valuable salmon permits have drained out ... would push their fishing boats into the water, run the 120 miles down the Nushagak River into ...
Without more data, some salmon in B.C. and Yukon could face 'undocumented extinction,' study says
A lack of crucial data in vast Northwestern watersheds risks "undocumented extinction" of some salmon, according to a new ...
Missoulian6d
Wary of Pebble Mine, Alaskans look to Montana, Idaho as cautionary tales in new documentary
"Unearth" follows two pairs of siblings who set out to understand what the mine might do to their home. It will screen during ...
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman13d
Alaska king salmon extinctions
I talked with Northern Cook Inlet Sport Fisheries Management Biologist, Samantha Oslund on Tuesday of this week, and she ...
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman6d
Alaska king salmon extinctions — continued
In last week’s Mat-Su Anglers column I documented Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s (ADF&G’s) estimated 85 plus % harvest ...
National Fisherman50m
Cook Inlet drift fleet battles on in court
For decades Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has managed all of Cook Inlet, based upon escapement of sockeye and silver salmon into its predominant rivers – mainly the Kenai, Kasilof and ...