The White House has reached what it says is an historic agreement over the restoration of salmon in the Pacific Northwest, a deal that could end for now a decades long legal battle with tribes.
Fisheries
Trident Seafoods to sell Petersburg and Ketchikan processing plants
The company’s cost-cutting efforts also include laying off about a tenth of its corporate staff.
Biden administration could wade into lawsuit over Southeast Alaska tribal fishing rights
The federal government says it’s considering submitting a friend-of-the-court brief in a lawsuit over fishing rights between the state and the Southeast Alaska tribal government of Metlakatla
Bottom-trawl gear to blame for most of this year’s fishery-related killer whale deaths, NOAA says
An investigation found that some whales were dead before becoming ensnared, but critics of bottom trawling have more questions about this year’s large death toll.
Warming seas helped cause Alaska’s snow crab crash, scientists say
Alaska’s snow crab fishery has been closed since 2022 when regulators declared the population overfished.
State brings 55 more charges against Petersburg fishing lodge
The charges say the two men helped their clients take too many halibut and did not accurately document the halibut that was caught.