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Margaret Bauman

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Margaret Bauman is an Alaskan journalist focused on covering fisheries and environmental issues.

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Pacific cod in Alaska waters. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

NPFMC recommends big boost in GOA Pacific cod catch limits

Over 400 entities are urging Congress to reject the Marine Aquaculture Research for America (MARA) Act of 2025. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Fishermen, aquaculture producers, and others launch battle against MARA Act

Bristol Bay fisherman Bill Hill enters U.S. House race. Photo courtesy by the Bill Hill campaign

Veteran Alaska harvester Bill Hill opts to run for US House

Fishing boats moored at the jetty in St. Paul Harbor, Kodiak. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock / Mystic Stock Photography

Final action on bycatch planned for BSAI groundfish fishery

Alaska Harmful Algal Bloom Network’s website shows the alerts issued for paralytic shellfish poisoning along the state’s Gulf Coast. Photo courtesy of the Alaska Ocean Observing System

HAB, climate change research updates presented at AMSS 2026

Image taken on April 25, 1998, shows the coccolithophore bloom in the Bering Sea. The greenish color is caused by the high concentration of phytoplankton. Photo courtesy of NASA

2026 AMSS keynotes will focus on algal blooms, maritime disasters

Salmon samples from canned salmon in which researchers found dead anisakid roundworms. Photo courtesy of Natalie Mastick

Researchers: parasites help measure in salmon populations

A fishing vessel hauls in catch offshore California, USA. Photo by Elliott Hazen, courtesy of Heather Welch, UCSC.

VMI data used to study marine heatwaves may also monitor ecosystem health

Small Sablefish caught in a bottom trawl survey off the coast of California. Photo courtesy of Ian G. Taylor / U.S. Fish & Wildlife AK

Recertification of flatfish fisheries as sustainable challenged

The Mirage is a 50-foot longliner-troller based in Sitka, Alaska. Photo by Ben Matthys.

Alaska fishing vessel set to trial hybrid propulsion system