Early in the task force’s process, frustrations are already simmering about who’s in the loop.
Fisheries
While Chignik fishermen wait on 2018 relief funds, some look beyond the fishery to survive
Chignik fishermen are finally expecting federal relief funds to start coming in, but that assistance may be too late.
Fisher poet publishes memoir about his years in Cook Inlet
Patrick Dixon wrote his first fishing poem when he was stranded on land after the Exxon-Valdez oil spill of 1989.
Mercury levels in Stellar sea lion pups are rising. Researchers look to the past to find out why
A new research project is building a timeline of mercury levels in the Aleutian Islands over the last few thousand years.
The Pacific cod fishery likely started a decade earlier than previously thought
In the mid 1800s, before the Pacific cod commercial fishery was thought to begin, Atlantic cod was sent thousands of miles to San Francisco.
New memorial scholarship honors Wrangell commercial-fishing siblings Sig and Helen Decker
21-year-old Sig Decker and 19-year-old Helen Decker grew up commercial fishing with their parents on the family boat.