Summer run Yukon River keta salmon processed by Kwik’Pak Fisheries in the Lower Yukon River town of Emmonak has found its way to seafood shoppers in Safeway stores in the Pacific Northwest. In seafood display cases in the Seattle area this past week, fresh keta salmon fillets from that Lower Yukon processor, priced at $6.99 […]
Federal fisheries officials have published a proposed rule to implement Steller sea lion protection measures for groundfish fisheries in Alaska’s Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. The intent of the proposed rule is twofold. First, it is to protect endangered western distinct population segments of Steller sea lions and their critical habitat, as required under the Endangered […]
Federal fishery managers have taken a small step forward on the issue of whether to amend groundfish and crab fishery management plans to protect significant concentrations of deep-sea corals in Pribilof Canyon in the Bering Sea. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council this past week adopted a purpose and need statement which is needed to […]