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Pandemic Prompts Boost in SeaShare Donations

By Fishermen's News Online on May 4, 2020   Fishermen's News Online  

Pandemic Prompts Boost in SeaShare Donations

  SeaShare’s effort to provide high quality portions of seafood to food banks nationwide has moved into high gear in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has left millions of Americans unemployed and struggling to put food on their tables. The Seattle-based nonprofit, with a growing number of several hundred partners and donors, […]

Efforts Continue to Assure Safe Salmon Fisheries in Midst of Pandemic

By Fishermen's News Online on Apr 26, 2020   Featured, Fishermen's News Online  

Efforts Continue to Assure Safe Salmon Fisheries in Midst of Pandemic

  With the Copper River salmon fishery in Prince William Sound just weeks away and the Bristol Bay salmon fishery coming up in June, plans are still in flux on how to ensure the safety of harvesters, processors and communities in the midst of a pandemic. To date the areas of the Cordova based fishery […]

2020 Commercial Salmon Fisheries Being Debated

By Fishermen's News Online on Apr 20, 2020   Featured, Fishermen's News Online  

2020 Commercial Salmon Fisheries Being Debated

  Discussions are underway at the government level, as well as with the processing and harvesting sectors of Alaska’s commercial salmon fisheries on how to proceed this summer in the midst of a pandemic. On one side are processors and harvesters who feel that with strict protocols in place the fisheries can proceed while assuring […]

Dillingham Wants Protections in Place Before Bristol Bay Fishery Opens

By Fishermen's News Online on Apr 12, 2020   Featured, Fishermen's News Online  

Dillingham Wants Protections in Place Before Bristol Bay Fishery Opens

  Community leaders in the Nushagak area of the Bristol Bay wild salmon fishery say they want restrictions in place before the harvesting begins to keep residents safe from the novel coronavirus, which has reached pandemic strength. A unified message from regional organizations based in Dillingham, Alaska, calls for all individuals arriving for the fishery […]

St. Paul Island Bans All Non-Essential Travel

By Fishermen's News Online on Apr 7, 2020   Featured, Fishermen's News Online  

St. Paul Island Bans All Non-Essential Travel

  The city’s location in the midst of the Central Bering Sea is usually considered a disadvantage because of its remoteness, but during the pandemic, the Saint Paul City Council has taken steps to keep the raging coronavirus from infecting their Pribilof Island fishing community. In response to federal and state emergency declarations over the […]

Alaska’s Commercial Harvesters Listed as ‘Critical Infrastructure’

By Fishermen's News Online on Apr 6, 2020   Featured, Fishermen's News Online  

Alaska’s Commercial Harvesters Listed as ‘Critical Infrastructure’

  Plans are in progress to conduct the multi-million dollar Bristol Bay salmon fishery this summer in a manner that keeps harvesters, processors and the seafood itself safe in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic. “Everyone is working on it on a regular basis,” said Norm Van Vactor of the Bristol Bay Economic Development […]

Processors Plan for a Complicated Season

By Fishermen's News Online on Mar 31, 2020   Fishermen's News Online  

Processors Plan for a Complicated Season

  Seafood processors preparing for robust wild Alaska salmon fisheries, which begin in May, are taking special precautions to assure the safety of people and their harvest in a season where a novel coronavirus pandemic is making life complicated. Ocean Beauty Seafoods, for one, has advised its fleet they are taking some specific actions because […]

NOAA Fisheries Emergency Action Waives Some Observer Coverage

By Fishermen's News Online on Mar 29, 2020   Featured, Fishermen's News Online  

NOAA Fisheries Emergency Action Waives Some Observer Coverage

  Federal fisheries officials responding to concerns voiced by longline halibut and black cod fishermen in Alaska have issued an emergency action providing authority, on a case by case basis, to waive observer coverage in some instances. The emergency action also waive some training and other program requirements while meeting conservation needs and providing an […]

Extended Deadline Requested for Final Pebble EIS

By Fishermen's News Online on Mar 27, 2020   Featured, Fishermen's News Online  

Extended Deadline Requested for Final Pebble EIS

  Commercial fishermen and other leaders of the Bristol Bay region are asking the US Army Corps of Engineers to formally relax the timeline for development of their final environmental impact statement (EIS) and extend the deadline for cooperating agencies to comment on the preliminary final EIS. Given the major disruptions caused all across the […]

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