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Wesley Loy

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Wesley is a longtime editor and reporter covering North Pacific commercial fisheries. His Deckboss blog offers Alaska fisheries news and notes. Find it at deckboss.blogspot.com.

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Jon Kurland is Alaska regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service. NOAA photo.

A ‘worthwhile effort’ to address trawl bottom contact

The catcher-processor Arctic Storm, as seen in 2007 in Seattle. The vessel remains hard at work in the Bering Sea pollock fishery and is taking part in the trawl industry’s Gear Innovation Initiative. Wesley Loy photo.

Alaska’s pollock industry looks to get to the bottom of a rising criticism

Southeast Alaska trollers at work in Sitka Sound. Photo by James Poulson, Daily Sitka Sentinel

Alaska fisheries face numerous legal issues plus an endangered species battle

Trident Seafoods CEO Joe Bundrant.Trident Seafoods photo

An Interview with Trident Seafoods Corp. CEO Joe Bundrant

John Hanrahan, left, CEO of OBI Seafoods, and retired CEO Mark Palmer. Photo courtesy of OBI Seafoods

OBI Seafoods CEO sees challenging year for Alaska salmon

Catching sockeye on a Bristol Bay drift gillnet boat. A smaller Alaska salmon harvest this year could help clear inventory and bolster ex-vessel prices for fishermen. Wesley Loy photo

As Alaska salmon season opens, Silver Bay’s CEO assesses grim times

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