NOAA researchers are refining a method to collect data about what fish were present in an area, up to two days after those fish have moved on.
Fisheries
Amid salmon crash, Alaska’s Yukon River residents say a new pact with Canada leaves them behind
The plan could close fishing for seven more years and open the door for hatcheries. In villages along the river, tribal leaders say the state has cut them out of the process.
Trident Seafoods find buyers for Ketchikan, Petersburg and False Pass processing plants
Trident did not name who will buy the plants. Company officials say both Trident and the buyers are bound by non-disclosure agreements.
Leading Alaska legislators propose task force to help rescue a seafood industry ‘in a tailspin’
The Joint Legislative Seafood Industry Task Force, modeled after a state salmon task force formed 20 years ago, would present findings and recommendations by January.
Alaska’s mariculture industry expands, with big production increases in recent years, report says
Alaska seaweed production went from almost nothing in 2017 to nearly 900,000 pounds in 2022.
Climate change is making it harder to survey pollock in the Gulf of Alaska
Between 2017 and 2019, pollock surveys in the Gulf of Alaska produced wildly different estimates.