Tuesday, February 27, 2024
'The true cost of cheap seafood'
Joe Bundrant, CEO of Seattle-based processing company Trident Seafoods, addresses a seafood worker scandal in China.
Russian trawlers are hurting Alaska, Peltola says
U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola on Monday addressed the Alaska Legislature and devoted a good part of her speech to fish and fisheries.
Curiously, the word bycatch appears nowhere in the address.
She does go after "lawless" Russian trawl fleets "pushing ever closer to our waters."
Read Peltola's full address here.
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Juneau watch
Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang is scheduled to present a budget overview to the House Finance Committee at 1:30 p.m. Monday.
AMCC's legal fundraiser
The Alaska Marine Conservation Council has launched a GoFundMe campaign to "help stop halibut bycatch."
Friday, February 23, 2024
Transit scheme costs American Seafoods $9.5M
Two subsidiaries of American Seafoods, a major harvester of Bering Sea pollock, have agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle violations of a shipping law known as the Jones Act, federal prosecutors say.
More details in this press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Anchorage.
We've asked American Seafoods for comment.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Cook Inlet battle royal set
The Alaska Board of Fisheries holds lots of meetings, none more contentious than those devoted to Upper Cook Inlet.
Tomorrow in Anchorage, the board begins a 12-day meeting to consider 185 Upper Cook Inlet finfish proposals.
Debate around Cook Inlet salmon management is always intense as multiple user groups — commercial, sport, dipnet, and subsistence — compete for the fish.
We won't attempt to describe all the proposals at play for this meeting. But we note one that's generating quite a lot of buzz.
Proposal 43 would reduce production of hatchery pink salmon, which some people see as detrimental to wild fish.
The state's hatchery industry is lined up against the proposal. Here are some others opposing it:
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