A down year for Alaska salmon

Here's the 2018 commercial salmon season summary.

Up from the ashes

Here's a photo essay on the rebuild of Peter Pan's Port Moller plant, which sustained major fire damage in August 2017.

Ocean Beauty cannery offered for sale

Back in August, Ocean Beauty Seafoods said it was closing its Petersburg cannery permanently.

Now the plant is up for sale. Asking price: $3.39 million.

Kodiak crab man Foy named science center chief

Here's the news release.

Crabbers go to court

The Inter-Cooperative Exchange, a cooperative of Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands crab fishermen, is suing the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Here's the 15-page lawsuit.

ICE is seeking the release of agency records, including text messages and the like, related to the crab price arbitration system.

The suit indicates a NMFS official took a stance that could tilt the arbitration system in favor of crab processors. ICE, with its suit, is demanding agency records that might shed light on the matter.

The arbitration system is "so critical to ICE members receiving a fair price for crab," the suit says.

F/V Tlingit Lady update

Silver Bay Seafoods has acquired the seiner Tlingit Lady.

Here's the court order confirming the sale.

West Coast support for Ballot Measure 1

The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations is endorsing Alaska's Ballot Measure 1.