Deckboss was preoccupied recently and failed to post some noteworthy items. So here, for the record, is a roundup of what we missed.
• The International Pacific Halibut Commission, which meets this week in Juneau, posted these proposals for 2016 catch limits.
• The Commerce Department has approved an amendment to tighten Bering Sea halibut bycatch limits.
• A state legislator has filed a bill to ban the sale of genetically modified fish in Alaska.
• Matt Marinkovich will not run for another term on the board of the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association.
• The Alaska Board of Fisheries has rejected purse seining on the lower Yukon River.
• Fishing Company of Alaska's Karena Adler has crossed the bar.
• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denied it issued a preemptive veto of the Pebble mine.
• Roland Maw has been charged in connection with false residency claims on applications for commercial fishing permits and Permanent Fund dividends.
• Acting on a directive from Congress, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated its seafood list so that fish caught in foreign waters can no longer be labeled "Alaska pollock."
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making another pollock buy.
• The Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska pollock fisheries have won Marine Stewardship Council recertification.
• Unalaska has a new police chief.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
For the record
Here are a few slightly dated news nuggets Deckboss wasn't able to post promptly:
• Sitka-based processor Silver Bay Seafoods is planning to build a new freezer plant for squid in Ventura, California. It's a $22 million project set to open in late spring 2015, a company executive says.
• The National Marine Fisheries Service has published this notice of a proposed amendment to allow the rebuilding, replacement or retirement of American Fisheries Act vessels. This is the Bering Sea pollock fleet.
• China has lifted its ban on shellfish imports including geoduck clams from Alaska and the West Coast. Here's a statement federal officials released a few days ago.
• Gov. Sean Parnell has renominated Dorothy Childers, Gerry Merrigan and Caryn Rea to the North Pacific Research Board. Click here for background on the nominees and the board.
• Jerry McCune of Cordova, president of United Fishermen of Alaska, is running as a Democrat for state representative, District 32.
• We now have some indication of how that $21 million in federal salmon disaster relief will be divvied up. About $9.7 million will go to the Yukon-Kuskokwim region, and $11.1 million will go to Cook Inlet, NMFS says. Still no word on how much will go directly to fishermen.
• Sitka-based processor Silver Bay Seafoods is planning to build a new freezer plant for squid in Ventura, California. It's a $22 million project set to open in late spring 2015, a company executive says.
• The National Marine Fisheries Service has published this notice of a proposed amendment to allow the rebuilding, replacement or retirement of American Fisheries Act vessels. This is the Bering Sea pollock fleet.
• China has lifted its ban on shellfish imports including geoduck clams from Alaska and the West Coast. Here's a statement federal officials released a few days ago.
• Gov. Sean Parnell has renominated Dorothy Childers, Gerry Merrigan and Caryn Rea to the North Pacific Research Board. Click here for background on the nominees and the board.
• Jerry McCune of Cordova, president of United Fishermen of Alaska, is running as a Democrat for state representative, District 32.
• We now have some indication of how that $21 million in federal salmon disaster relief will be divvied up. About $9.7 million will go to the Yukon-Kuskokwim region, and $11.1 million will go to Cook Inlet, NMFS says. Still no word on how much will go directly to fishermen.
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