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The Homer Chamber of Commerce Halibut Jackpot Derby will come to an end after this Sunday.Since 1996, the chamber has been awarding prizes for the largest…

Halibut bycatch mortality in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea/Aleutian Island groundfish fisheries dipped slightly for the week ending September 7 by…

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…

Regulatory area 521, in the central Bering Sea just northwest of the Pribilof Islands, recorded the highest bycatch totals for nearly all prohibited…

The commercial halibut quota for the IFQ longline fishery in Alaska dipped about ten percent overall for 2020, to just over 17 million pounds. Though…

Longliners targeting Pacific Cod posted the highest poundage of halibut bycatch for the week of July 13, according to public data released by the National…

July continued to report the lowest catches of prohibited species in 2019 throughout groundfish fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea/Aleutian…

Sockeye salmon continued pouring into Upper Cook Inlet. Six hundred forty thousand found their way into the nets of the commercial gillnet fleet, up from…

***CORRECTION: A previous version of this piece overstated the amount of king salmon caught as bycatch to date in 2019. The correct number is twenty-nine…

In winter months, it's necessary for peninsula residents to get their food from thousands of miles away but growing season is underway and the Alaska Food…