The trooper dispatch revealed that Alaska Wildlife Troopers are currently investigating the “unlawful taking and wanton waste of multiple cow caribou near the Kauk River in GMU 23.” The GMU 23 management area consists of the Kotzebue Sound, Chukchi Sea, and Arctic Ocean drainages from and including the Goodhope River drainage to Cape Lisburne. As troopers […]
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 […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate last night unanimously passed the Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing Enforcement Act of 2015. In May, Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), and Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced legislation to combat the multi-billion dollar threat posed by illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities. The legislation is the House companion […]
United Nations officials say that a growing number of countries are ratifying an international agreement to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, which strips an estimated $10 billion to $23 billion from the global economy. To help tackle the problem, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in 2009 brokered the adoption by its member countries […]