With the holiday season coming into full swing in December, retail suppliers of wild Alaska seafood both online and in local shops say sales are on par with a year ago and they are upbeat about a good season. Seafood retailers queried in mid-November had a wide variety of product available, from whole fish fresh […]
An analysis of Alaska’s 2015 Bristol Bay sockeye salmon season released on Nov. 16 notes the dramatic drop in prices paid to harvesters, along substantial decline in Bristol Bay driftnet permit values. The report prepared by the McDowell Group in Juneau, Alaska, for the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association said that there is a […]
With a Hail Mary motion filed in US District Court in Anchorage, a marine conservation professor who has followed the Exxon Valdez oil spill litigation is asking that public comment be ordered on the potential reopener claim. The amicus curiae motion filed on Nov. 3 by Rick Steiner, a retired University of Alaska Fairbanks professor, […]
A study released last week by the international ocean advocacy group Oceana reveals widespread mislabeling of salmon in restaurants and grocery stores. According to Beth Lowell, senior campaign director at Oceana, of the 82 salmon samples collected from restaurants and groceries, 43 percent were mislabeled, and DNA testing confirmed that 69 percent of the mislabeling consisted […]