Norton Sound Economic Development Corp., one of the state's community development quota companies, is acquiring a controlling interest in Bering Sea trawl operator Glacier Fish Co.
The Wild Fish Conservancy is celebrating progress in its legal challenge to Southeast Alaska's Chinook salmon troll fishery, which the Seattle-area group contends is a threat to "starving" killer whales.
The commercial harvest of 40.4 million sockeye salmon was the fifth-largest harvest on record, says this season summary from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.