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Fishery managers start a process to tighten salmon bycatch rules in Alaska’s Bering Sea
Federal fishery managers took steps on Tuesday to impose new rules to prevent Alaska chum salmon from being scooped into nets ...
The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more ...
Alaska Dispatch News14d
Invasive freshwater fish able to swim through Alaska’s Cook Inlet, study proves
The documentation of salmon-eating northern pike in Southcentral estuaries, a North American first, shows a new way for the ...
Alaska Public Media8d
Debate over potential bycatch rules takes center stage at fishery council meeting
The issue pits a multibillion-dollar industry against Western Alaska subsistence communities struggling with record-low ...
National Fisherman7d
Bristol Bay data show widening gap in fishermen’s earnings
Last year’s lower-than-average Bristol Bay salmon harvest likely went a long way toward long-term polarization of the drift ...
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman1d
Alaska king salmon extinctions — continued
In last week’s Mat-Su Anglers column I documented Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s (ADF&G’s) estimated 85 plus % harvest ...
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The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
There were hundreds of them, nets stretching almost continuously ... as a “sickness” that was afflicting Alaska’s fishing industry. Salmon populations had crashed in the 1950s and were ...