Fisheries

Alaska has an ambitious goal: to turn its growing mariculture business into a $100 million industry by 2040.

The Southeast harvests in both 2020 and 2018 were around 8 million fish — among some of the lowest in decades.

State environmental officials say the 3,000 gallons of diesel and several hundred gallons of lubricants won’t have a significant environmental impact.

A large swath of Upper Cook Inlet will officially be closed to commercial salmon fishing next summer.

More than a day after a fishing boat capsized in frigid water, the crew’s puppy was found unharmed, washed up on a beach.

Fish & Game reports that the statewide salmon harvest — both by numbers of fish and by weight — was the third-highest on record.

Wrangell’s assembly has unanimously called on Canadian regulators to immediately pause permitting, development and expansion of mines upstream from Southeast Alaska’s waterways. It’s also asking the provincial government of British Columbia to permanently ban the practice of storing liquid mine waste behind earthen dams. 

In the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas, there is a growing presence of Alexandrium cysts, an algal bloom that creates harmful saxitoxin.

Subsistence, a practice which past generations participated in without question, has become a complex legal puzzle — “a very unsettled and unsettling [legal landscape] for Alaska Native people,” according to one lawyer who has spent decades working on subsistence cases.

Weather at the time included 40 mph winds gusting to 55 and 14-foot seas, with rain, snow and sleet squalls.