fisheries

3 min read 2022-01-09 23:59:00

Overfishing fuels South China Sea tensions, risks armed conflict, researcher says

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. A collapse of fishery stocks in the South China Sea due

2 min read 2022-01-08 23:00:00

Preliminary total harvest reports for the 2021 salmon season in Prince William Sound show that the catch exceeded 2020 harvests for sockeye, keta and

5 min read 2022-01-07 00:30:00

Since 1991 the weekly Fish Factor column has highlighted Alaska’s seafood industry with its annual “Picks and Pans — a no-holds-barred look

4 min read 2022-01-04 20:00:54

Getty Images: matthayes01These are the five best fishing states west of the Rockies bar none. Whether you are talking about pristine trout waters,

4 min read 2022-01-02 03:46:06

Below is an announcement of publication of a brief from TRYGG MAT Tracking (TMT), regarding Illegal, Unregulated, Unreported (IUU) fishing in the

2 min read 2022-01-01 00:02:00

Attention commercial harvesters: your fisheries relief checks are in the mail. Just be patient. That’s the advice of the Pacific States Marine

4 min read 2021-12-31 23:00:00

Prince William Sound’s 2021 commercial salmon fishery proved challenging in the midst of a second year of the global novel coronavirus pandemic and

4 min read 2021-12-31 06:30:00

An Alaska Salmon Research Task Force Act was introduced in Congress last week by Alaska Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan that, if passed,

2 min read 2021-12-29 00:00:00

Almost a year into the purchase of Peter Pan Seafood from a major Japanese corporation, the new owners are celebrating a successful 2021 and say they

2 min read 2021-12-28 23:00:00

Officials with the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association say that a $189,100 federal grant award will be used to foster new partnerships in

3 min read 2021-12-28 02:28:51

Even as the Gulf of Alaska concludes a second consecutive non-marine heatwave year, with average ocean temperatures on the surface and at depth,

5 min read 2021-12-28 02:04:48

Strong global and U.S. demand for sockeye salmon has pushed prices to near record highs and boosted fishermen’s paychecks. Both Silver Bay and

2 min read 2021-12-24 03:48:18

By Mike Wells and Geoff Clark For The Cordova Times Anyone who’s ever fished in Alaska knows that it’s about much more than putting dinner on the

2 min read 2021-12-20 19:53:57

Preface. A third of freshwater fish are under threat from pollution, over fishing, dams, non-native species, climate change, disruption of river

3 min read 2021-12-20 01:00:00

A six-year battle over the incidental catch of an estimated 2.8 million pounds of halibut annually by trawlers in the Bering Sea has prompted federal