Fisheries

British Columbia is telling owners of a leaky mine that it’s time to stop polluting a river that flows into Alaska. Provincial officials on Nov. 10 notified the Tulsequah Chief Mine that it’s out of compliance with its permits

Former KDLG news director Bob King has been crunching the numbers, and says sometime next season the Bay’s 2 billionth commercially caught salmon will come out of the water.

Bob Loescher was Sealaska’s CEO from 1997 to 2001. He headed up the Tlingit-Haida Central Council’s housing and electrical authorities and was a subsistence-rights activist.

Developers of British Columbia’s controversial Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell deposit say they’ve found more gold. That could increase its value and help attract investors.

Dennis J. Capua was charged for failing to remove at least 64 commercial Dungeness crab pots near Stephens Passage after the season had closed Aug. 15.

State officials have closed recreational and commercial fishing for Dungeness and rock crab on the California coast, due to a large algae bloom that’s making the crab unsafe for consumption.