(Juneau, AK) – In May of 2025, the Consumer Protection Unit launched an investigation into the tourism industry in Southeast Alaska for the purpose of ensuring the authenticity of claims that products were from or made in Alaska. Undercover investigators visited stores in Juneau, Ketchikan, and Skagway posing as tourists interested in buying authentic Alaskan souvenirs. […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – The U.S. Coast Guard, Canadian forces, and international partners concluded a joint patrol countering Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing as part of Operation North Pacific Guard (NPG) 2026. Operation NPG is a multinational counter-IUU fishing operation which represents the very best of interoperability between the U.S. and international partners to detect, deter, and […]
Pacific capelin are a major forage species for predators in the North Pacific. They are short-lived and, like salmon, were thought to spawn only once and die. A new study found that some are capable of spawning multiple times. For certain fish species, like Pacific salmon, reproduction is a once-in-a-lifetime event, known as semelparity. Many other […]
