National Fisherman

Alaska

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Expect the unexpected: An evaluation of climate impacts on Alaskan fisheries

Guest Author

Three fishing vessels attached to one another in the water near Long Island, Alaska, Sept. 10. The Coast Guard and other fishing vessel crews responded after one of the vessels, Emily Rose, struck a rock and began flooding. Screenshot from U.S. Coast Guard video by Gregory Wilcox.

Good Samaritan crews, Coast Guard save flooding fishing vessel near Kodiak

Eric Haun

The Bristol Bay sockeye season is short and intense; aboard a Northline boat, a four-man crew picks fish and does all it can to preserve quality, bleeding and chilling fish in RSW tanks. Photo courtesy of Asher Molyneaux

Getting wild salmon onto the plate

Paul Molyneaux

Alaska’s four gubernatorial candidates faced questions on fisheries management during a Sept. 9 debate in Kodiak. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Alaska governor candidates split on fisheries

Carli Clancy

Southeast Alaska will see back-to-back commercial red king crab fisheries for the first time in more than 20 years. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Southeast gets rare back-to-back red king crab season

Carli Clancy

ALFA says intact Tongass watersheds are critical to Southeast Alaska’s commercial salmon fisheries. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Tongass roadless plan raises salmon concerns

NF Staff

Hanna Yatchmeneff and Megan Gatlin on a grant-funded False Pass school trip. Funding from Silver Bay Seafoods helps the Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association’s School Grant Program teach marine ecosystems and fisheries science. APICDA

Silver Bay Seafoods boosts Aleutian Pribilof Island Community school program

NF Staff

A Ninth Circuit ruling has dealt another setback to Oceana’s legal challenge over bottom trawling and seafloor habitat protections in Alaska. Photo courtesy of At-Sea Processors Association

Oceana loses appeal in North Pacific trawling lawsuit

Chris Chase

The Alaska Ocean Observation Systems works with subsistence fishermen and Alaska Natives by collecting data for projects such as the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO). AOOS photo.

AOOS: Home of Alaska ocean data

Paul Molyneaux

Shutterstock photo.

Mediocre Bristol Bay catch offset by soaring sockeye prices

Scott Atkinson

The F/V Element at the dock in Homer, Alaska, ready to make the trip across Cook Inlet to Westport, from there by land to Lake Iliamna and then down the Kvichak River to Bristol Bay just in time for the sockeye salmon season.

Boat of the Month: Element

Paul Molyneaux