Fisheries

Fish and Game is forecasting a return of 28.8 million sockeye to the district, with 18 million available for harvest.

A bill to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the nation’s primary fishing law, passed the U.S. House onday, largely on party lines.

Of the 30 million pounds of halibut caught last year in commercial fisheries statewide, nearly a third was thrown back into the ocean, dead. The fish were netted accidentally by boats targeting other fish.

A new study hones in on habitats where Chinook salmon are born and raised by tracking chemical tags in the fish’s otolith.

The salmon processors at odds over who gets the blue-label sustainability certification needed to sell fish in certain European markets are expected to enter mediation next week.

Fish leather has a long history in Alaska; one local company is hoping to make it the next big thing in fashion.