Wounded Warriors Find Solace While Fishing In Alaska
that doesn’t even include their families and all the volunteers who have gotten out with us. Now I do it because it needs to be done.”...
Category: Fishing
University Of Washington Study Focuses On Accidental Catch Effects On Sea Life
"Accidentally trapping sharks, seabirds, marine mammals, sea turtles and other animals in fishing gear is one of the biggest barriers to making fisheries more sustainable around the world. Marine protected areas — sections of the ocean set aside to conserve biodiversity...
Study: Making Hatchery Steelhead More Like Wild Fish
Hatchery-raised steelhead trout have offspring that are good at gaining size under hatchery conditions but don’t survive as well in streams as steelhead whose parents are wild fish, new research by Oregon State University shows. ...
ADFG Pushes Back Alaska Shellfish Meeting To March 26 Opening
The following is courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game: RESCHEDULED: Alaska Board of Fisheries to Meet in Anchorage, March 26-April 2, 2022 on Cook Inlet, Kodiak, Westward, Arctic Shellfish and Shellfish General Provisions, and Prince William Sound Shrimp...
Cook Inlet Commercial Fishing Fight Continues As Dunleavy Enters Chat In Court
The closure of Cook Inlet to commercial fishing has brought forward a lawsuit and now intervention from Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy. Here’s more from the Alaska Journal of Commerce: Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration will be fighting in court to keep...
Your Salmon Or Our Salmon? B.C.’s Objection To Fish Caught Enroute To Canada
Fascinating report in Canadian publication Coast Reporter about what fishermen have the right to lay claim on in waters separated by the U.S. and Canadian borders. British Columbia fishers are objecting to Alaskans catching a lot of the sockeye that head...
State Delays SE, Yakutat Shellfish, Finfish Meeting Until March (Update)
The following is courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Board of Fisheries: Following the postponement of its Southeast and Yakutat Finfish and Shellfish meeting, the Board of Fisheries rescheduled the meeting to the Anchorage Egan Civic and Convention...
Setting Up Discussion Topics After Murwkowski’s Salmon Roundtable
Senator Murkowski, alongside Senator Sullivan and Congressman Young, all R-Alaska, hosted a Salmon Roundtable this week to bring together stakeholders to better understand the root cause of the salmon declines and to identify data gaps to help guide solutions. The roundtable...