The Interface of Change project will support five years of research to boost climate resilience for mariculture and traditional harvesting.
Fisheries
Peter Pan Seafoods announces it will cease operations
The company has faced mounting troubles, including legal claims from fishermen of back-owed payments for unpaid seafood deliveries.
Alaska and Canada agree to moratorium on Yukon River chinook salmon fishing
The agreement sets a 71,000 Canadian-origin chinook annual border passage target, and allows for consideration of limited subsistence harvest if the target is projected to be reached.
Fish out of water story ends with 77,000 young salmon in the wrong creek
The spring chinook salmon is federally listed as a threatened species in the Snake River.
State grants will fund two maritime history projects in Bristol Bay
One of the grants will support sailing a restored double-ender sailboat from Naknek to Dillingham.
Judge rules for the feds in a lawsuit against the state of Alaska over subsistence fishing rights
A U.S. District Court judge ruled that state fisheries managers can’t allow salmon fishing on a long stretch of the Kuskokwim River if their orders conflict with federal management decisions.