Fisheries
All things fishy.
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game proposes to repeal the ban on personal watercraft use in Fox River Flats and Kachemak Bay Critical Habitat…
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As the 2019 fishing seasons throughout Alaska begin to wind down, halibut bycatch mortality for the year to date is already higher than all of 2018 and…
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Incidental catch of halibut, salmon, and crab was down across all fisheries and almost all gear types during the week ending October 19. Halibut mortality…
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A suite of proposals set to go before the Board of Fisheries want to limit hatchery operations in Lower Cook Inlet.Seven proposals for the upcoming Lower…
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Bycatch of king salmon remained above average for the week ending October 12. Onboard observers recorded four thousand six hundred seventy-seven kings,…
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Incidental catch of king, opilio, and tanner crab by vessels targeting groundfish more than doubled for the third week in a row, according to data from…
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Halibut bycatch mortality in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea/Aleutian Island groundfish fisheries dipped slightly for the week ending September 7 by…
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Pacific halibut bycatch mortality rose for the third straight week in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries. Onboard…
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The Alaska Board of Fisheries violated the state’s open meetings law. That’s according to Alaska’s ombudsman that released a critical report Tuesday…
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Halibut bycatch mortality in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands regulatory areas for the week ending August 24th was highest in Area 620,…