The guide aims to advance the state’s budding mariculture industry at a time when global demand for kelp products is on the rise.
Fisheries
Red king crab proposals could change future of Southeast Alaska’s commercial fishery
In the last decade, there was just one commercial red king crab fishery in Southeast Alaska. But that could change with a proposal to the Alaska Board of Fisheries.
Bering Sea snow crab season kicks off for first time in 3 years
Earlier this month, commercial snow crabs started hitting Unalaska’s docks again for the first time in nearly three years.
Juneau Assembly votes to oppose Board of Fish proposition to limit hatchery numbers by 25%
Juneau’s resolution joins other Southeast communities in opposing an Alaska Board of Fisheries proposition that would limit hatchery production of pink and chum salmon.
Alaska seafood processors to pay $2.1M in wage lawsuit settlement
Two major Alaskan seafood processors have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging wage violations during the COVID-19 pandemic. OBI Seafoods and Ocean Beauty Seafoods were ordered to pay a total of $2.1 million as part of a settlement approved last week by Judge Marsha J. Pechman in the U.S. District Court for the Western…
New study of salmon abundance prompts a rethink of endangered killer whale decline
No one has ever gone out and counted the chinook in the Southern Resident killer whale’s habitat – until now.