Oceans

Southeast Alaska’s commercial king salmon fishery will remain open until further notice. The July 1 king opener for trollers, who fish with hook and line, is usually over quickly– it typically lasts anywhere from a handful of days to a week. But this year, with two weeks down, trollers are only at the halfway mark toward catching their target.

The Coast Guard and the South Tongass Fire Department assisted in extinguishing the fire. When they arrived, all three passengers were aboard the charter fishing boat. They were all adults and no injuries were reported. 

The animals appear to be starving as a result of climate change disruptions to the food web, according to NOAA.

Federal regulators plan to reevaluate fishing closure boundaries established to protect endangered Steller sea lions in Alaska, part of a national Trump administration push to cut regulation of U.S. commercial seafood harvests. The Steller sea lion protections are among a series of rules that the administration is seeking to relax or change to carry out…

In parts of the Arctic, traffic has been increasing as sea ice declines

The Kruzof stranding wasn’t the only one this summer. A second beaked whale was found beached in Yakutat in early June.