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Margaret Bauman

Alaska Correspondent

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

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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

File photo of a U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Bradley Pigage.

Nine rescued from crab boat grounded in Pribilof Islands

Seafood aficionados appear to be largely unfazed by higher retail prices for Bristol Bay red king crab. Shutterstock photo.

King crab aficionados demand crab, no matter the price

Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Petition urges more protections for whales in Dungeness crab fisheries