To grow the industry, Cordova’s kelp farmers need a way to process seaweed locally.
Fisheries
Sitka workshop discusses the future of invasive crabs in Alaska
European green crabs first reached the Pacific coast in 1989, but it wasn’t until 2022 that they showed up in Alaska.
Western Alaska salmon crisis affects physical and mental health, residents say
The salmon crisis in the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers is harming more than local economies, food security and culture, according to people in the region. It is also harming human health.
EPA plans to limit or eliminate salmon-killing tire chemical found in preliminary Alaska sampling
It likely will take years for the EPA’s rulemaking process to take effect.
Alaska seafood harvesting jobs decline as fish crashes, pandemic and other factors take toll
Employment for people harvesting seafood dropped by about a quarter from 2015 to 2022.
With little movement on salmon bycatch, Alaska advocates look to Biden administration for executive action
The move comes amid catastrophic shortfalls in salmon harvests in some of Alaska’s rural, Indigenous communities.
Conservation group plans to sue federal government over deaths of orcas in trawl nets
This follows a NOAA report that said 10 orcas were hauled up in trawl nets over the last year, nine of which died.
Longtime fisherman reflects on his career in Bristol Bay
Dan Barr is eighty-one and a half years old. He fished Bristol Bay for just about half his life.
Alaska pollock trawlers are feeling pressure over salmon bycatch. This reporter went to see for himself
Fisheries reporter Hal Bernton visited a Bering Sea factory trawler to see how its crew caught and processed pollock — and how the captain works to keep salmon bycatch low.
A Petersburg tender holds open mics on board, with its fish hold as the sound stage
A nearly 100-year-old wooden boat in Petersburg has become a staple of the tight-knit local music scene.