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Fishery managers call for deeper look at salmon bycatch, but decline to tighten rules
Western Alaska villagers have endured the worst chum salmon runs on record, several years of anemic Chinook salmon runs in the Yukon and Kuskokwim... Full story
Kennicott delayed out of shipyard; parts part of the problem
Global supply chain shortages and delays have extended past grocery stores, car dealers and electron...
Extra ferry sailing will pick up waitlist travelers in Bellingham
With more than 260 would-be ferry passengers stuck on a waitlist for travel out of Bellingham, Washington, and sailings full until late July, the...
Alaska Fish Factor
The weekly write up about Alaska’s fishing industry began in 1991 in the Anchorage Daily News. Since then, subscribership has grown to nearly 20 n...
Alaska Fish Factor: Alaska task force investigating fisheries bycatch has a big, complicated task ahead
Gotta give the Dunleavy Administration credit for being the first to try and get to the bottom of one of Alaska’s most troubling fishing issues: bycat...
Alaska Fish Factor
March means more fishing boats are out on the water with the start of the Pacific halibut and sablefish (black cod) fisheries this past Sunday,...
Alaska Fish Factor
Frigid February fishing in Alaska features crabbing from the Panhandle to the Bering Sea, followed in March by halibut, black cod and herring. Southea...
Alaska Fish Factor:
Where do most Alaska fishermen live? Which Alaska region is home to the most fishing boats? The answers are in an economic report by the Alaska...
Alaska Fish Factor: Pacific Halibut Commission will set catch later this month
Wow, there is a lot of fishing going on across Alaska! Salmon is the heart of Alaska’s seafood industry but winter is when the fishing action r...
Alaska Fish Factor
Since 1991 the weekly Fish Factor column has highlighted Alaska’s seafood industry with its annual “Picks and Pans - a no holds barred look back at...
Alaska Fish Factor: LED lights help guide salmon to openings in trawl nets
Low-cost LED lights can help Chinook salmon escape trawl nets. A 2020 study by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission and NOAA’s Northwest F...
Alaska Fish Factor
Pacific halibut stock appears to be on an upswing and could result in increased catches for most regions in 2022. At the interim meeting of the...
Weak pink salmon harvest predicted next year
The 2022 pink salmon harvest is forecasted to be in the weak range in Southeast Alaska with an...
Yesterday's News
November 11, 1921 The laboratory equipment for instruction of the classes in general science in the Petersburg School and which was ordered several...
Alaska Fish Factor
It’s hard to believe, but Dungeness crab in the Gulf of Alaska is now Alaska’s largest crab fishery – a distinction due to the collapse of stock...
Alaska Fish Factor
Pollock protein noodles, southern-style Alaska wild wings, candied salmon ice cream, fish oils for pets, fish and chips meal kits and finfish...
Good news about tanner crab in Gulf of Alaska
Unlike in the Bering Sea, there's good news for crab in the Gulf of Alaska. A huge cohort of Tanner...
COVID-19 weekly update:
Breakthrough COVID-19 cases found in Alaska April 30 Between Feb. 1 and March 31, Alaska Department... Full story
Nutrition, Native ways and knowing where your fish comes from
Nutrition, Native ways and knowing where your fish comes from. That multi-message forms the nexus of a new partnership of the Bristol Bay Native...
Projected total 2021 salmon harvest is 190 million, 61% increase over 2020
Alaska’s salmon landings have passed the season’s midpoint and by August 7 the statewide catch had topped 116 million fish. State managers are cal...
Sockeye catches at Bristol Bay topping one million fish seven days straight
“Unprecedented” is how fishery managers are describing sockeye catches at Bristol Bay, which topped one million fish for seven days straight at the Nu...
Senate GOP hails new Interior deputy as 'voice of reason'
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate easily confirmed former Obama administration official Tommy Beaudreau as deputy secretary at the Interior Department o...
Fishery managers forecast statewide salmon catch topping 190 million salmon this year , 61% higher than 2020
Eager buyers are awaiting Alaska salmon from fisheries that are opening almost daily across the...
Interest in growing kelp outpaces that of shellfish
Alaskan interest in growing kelp continues to outpace that of shellfish, based on applications...
All eyes on early Cordova dock prices for Alaska's famous "first fresh salmon of the season" as indicator of wild salmon markets
Alaska’s 2021 salmon season officially starts on Monday, May 17 with a 12-hour opener for reds and kings at the Copper River! All eyes will be on earl...
