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 […]
A former resident of Ketchikan has pled guilty to Lacy Act violations in connection to illegally purchased halibut in 2012 and 2013. It was announced by United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler this week that a former resident of Ketchikan, Donald Ray Thornlow, pled guilty to ” commercially purchasing halibut that was caught for subsistence […]
The Kodiak Island-based Alaska State Troopers revealed on Wednesday that they had been notified of a diving fatality that had been brought to the Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center on Sunday. It was at 1:36 pm on Sunday that it was reported to troopers that diver, 36-year-old Gary Graves was medevaced from the fishing vessel […]
A residence at mile 12 of the Chena Hot Springs Road near Fairbanks was raided for a second time in five years as a result of its use as a commercial Cannabis grow operation, Alaska State Troopers report in the trooper dispatch. After receiving a report of the heavy odor of Marijuana emanating from a residence […]