Early in the task force’s process, frustrations are already simmering about who’s in the loop.
"United Catcher Boats"
Commercial and subsistence harvesters speak out against trawler bycatch of chinook salmon
Federal fisheries data shows trawlers in the North Pacific took about a tenth of the king salmon caught by Alaska’s commercial salmon fleet last year.
‘Everybody’s worst nightmare’: Bering Sea fishermen on edge after COVID-19 closes second plant
Fishermen and industry leaders are anxious that they might not have places to offload their catch or that their plants might be the next to close down.
Health care workers are first in line for the COVID-19 vaccine. But who’s next?
Dr. Anne Zink says the state’s vaccine allocation committee is looking at three principals — logistics, science and equity — to get the vaccine out quickly, effectively and fairly.
‘Move out of the way’: Bering Sea fishing boats report close encounter with Russian military
The pollock boats were in the U.S. exclusive economic zone, which reserves fishing rights for American boats but doesn’t block international vessels from entering.
American Seafoods has had more than 100 COVID-19 cases on fishing vessels scheduled to come to Alaska this summer
If companies can put appropriate quarantine procedures in place before boarding, fishing crews stand a good chance of remaining uninfected with COVID-19, largely because of vessels’ isolation at sea.
Government shutdown, if it continues, could cost Alaska’s lucrative Bering Sea fisheries
Even if the shutdown persists, the federal government will still open the Bering Sea fisheries as scheduled. But the government requires inspections of things like scales and monitoring equipment. Those inspections won’t happen until the government reopens.
U.S. House committee reviewing fisheries observer program
The Magnuson Stevens Act – the federal law that manages and regulates the nation’s fisheries – will expire September 30th.