NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement is exploring technology innovations and limitations in the ongoing fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Fishing vessels can “go dark” by turning off Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponders that broadcast their location to satellites and terrestrial receivers. What they do during those invisible hours has long been a mystery. […]
Authorities continue to search for two overdue snowmachiners in the Selawik area for the third day according to AST. At 6:20 pm on Sunday, Selawik residents 41-year-old Selawik resident Timothy Snyder and 20-year-old Selawik resident Jane Kaiser were reported overdue by the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Coordinator. According to the AST dispatch, Snyder […]
(Palmer) – The Fish Creek Youth-Only Fishery will open on Saturday and Sunday, August 6-7, 2022, from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. each day. The Youth-Only Fishery allows anglers 15 years and younger to fish for all species, except king salmon, in waters between the ADF&G markers at the mouth of Fish Creek and ADF&G markers […]
DILLINGHAM, AK – For the second year in a row, a record number of sockeye have returned to Bristol Bay. Through July 14, Alaska Department of Fish and Game estimates 69.7 million sockeye returned to the Bay and its rivers, breaking the previous record of 67.7 million sockeye, set in 2021. Commercial fishermen have also […]