Response crews have successfully completed the salvage of a tug and barge grounded east of Cold Bay, Alaska, with cargo that included more than 1.4 million pounds of frozen seafood products.
A study of the economic impact of Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp. on Alaska’s seafood industry, sport, subsistence and personal use fisheries shows that PWSAC got a pretty big bang for its buck – a 271-to-1 return on its investment.
Female red king crab from the Juneau area will be the subject of a study to optimize the diet of larval king crab by the Alutiiq Pride Shellfish Hatchery, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Oregon State University.
Opponents of large-scale metallic sulfide mining within the Bristol Bay Fisheries Refuge have filed an application to put an initiative on a statewide Alaska ballot to require legislative approval for development of such mines.