Fisheries Board to Take Up Alaska Peninsula/Aleutian Islands Finfish Issues
A number of finfish issues – 48 in all – will be up for discussion Feb. 26 through March 4 before the Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting in Anchorage.
EPA Stretches Delivery Time on Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment
The US Environmental Protection Agency is adding another layer to its Bristol Bay watershed assessment, a document that could ultimately play a critical role in mining ventures bordering on the fisheries rich waters of Southwest Alaska.
Reduced Halibut Harvests Proposed by IPHC
Officials with the International Pacific Halibut Commission have proposed to the governments of the United States and Canada a 7.5 percent reduction in catch limits, down to 31,028,000 pounds, from the 2012 quota of 33,540,000 pounds.
Alcohol is NOT Our Culture
So a comment that a KTVA viewer made on the news story they did about this blog has really been bugging me. He stated that alcohol is our culture when it is in fact not. He also implied that it is our own culture that it is killing us.