Alaska Public Media1d
Decades after commercial fishing limits gutted Native fishing fleets, advocates call for change
Sustainable fishing policies passed in the 1970s have backfired in rural Native villages, where many family-run boats have ...
Alaska Public Media5d
As Alaska’s crab industry struggles, herring fishermen are losing their market
Captain Dan Veerhusen and Jan, his wife, run the Taurus, one of the few remaining boats that still fish herring in the Bering ...
Fishermen want to go green but say DOGE cuts prevent that
Those seeking to convert to new, lower-carbon emission systems are finding federal funding is unavailable in the wake of cuts ...
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Alaska fisher gets six months in federal prison for attempting to kill endangered whale
A federal judge in Juneau has sentenced a Southeast Alaska fisher to six months in federal prison after pleading guilty last ...
Anchorage Daily News8d
Science supporting Alaska seafood industry threatened by federal firings, biologists and fishermen say
NOAA Fisheries has declined to release numbers on the scope of the cutbacks to date, which has left congressional delegations ...
Juneau Empire on MSN9d
Southeast fisherman sentenced to six months in prison for falsifying records and attempting to kill sperm whale
Coffman Cove commercial fisherman Dugan Paul Daniels, 55, was sentenced on Monday to six months in prison for illegally ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner7d
Fish farm bill gets lukewarm reception during Senate hearing
The legislation prohibits farmed salmon and applies only to finfish, such as trout and Arctic grayling, among other finfish ...
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Alaska hunters, researchers say whales and fish are changing their migration patterns in the warming climate
Fishermen, hunters and researchers gathered at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage in January to discuss how ...