WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) celebrated the Senate’s recent unanimous passage of their Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest (FISH) Act. The FISH Act would combat foreign illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by blacklisting offending vessels from U.S. ports and waters, bolstering the U.S. Coast Guard’s enforcement capabilities and partnerships, […]
The Trump administration has offered no concrete evidence to support its claim that the boats destroyed by the US military were carrying drugs A woman who identified herself as the wife of one of the at least 17 people extrajudicially murdered by US military strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela said her slain […]
[content id=”79272″] JUNEAU, AK– New Administrative Orders from Governor Dunleavy published this week, Dunleavy administration eyes grants to NGOs for possible cuts in Alaska budget, negatively impacting every Alaskan who hunts, fishes, and depends on wild salmon in favor of outside interests whose sole objective is increasing billionaire bank accounts and lining the pockets of […]
JUNEAU – Friday, the House passed a major win for Alaska’s struggling commercial fishing industry. House Bill 116 allows fishermen to form insurance cooperatives that are exempt from the state’s traditional insurance code. The bill, sponsored by the House Special Committee on Fisheries at the request of the Joint Legislative Task Force Evaluating Alaska’s Seafood […]
