A federal fisheries survey is in the works for 2015 to improve data on the contributions of commercial fishing and seafood processing to the economy of Southwest Alaska. Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle plan to conduct the processor and support industry sector portion of the survey […]
Commercial fishermen in Alaska affected by the 2012 salmon fisheries disaster for Yukon Chinook, Kuskokwim Chinook and Cook Inlet salmon will share in $7.8 million in grants announced last week by NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region. The award includes direct payments to commercial fishermen, and breaks out as $3.2 million for the Yukon-Kuskokwim region and $4.6 million […]
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 […]