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Trawl-caught Pacific cod on the F/V Pegasus. Midwater Trawlers Cooperative photo

Letter: Pacific trawl cooperatives applaud council action

Guest Author

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s All Hands on Deck meeting will be hosted virtually from Juneau, Nov. 9-12. ASMI photo

Down to Business: Alaska’s All Hands on Deck goes live

Jessica Hathaway

The Kodiak-based dragger Laura heads into port in February 2019. Glenn Sheckells photo

Coast Guard: Alaska fishing crew rescued off Kodiak was well prepared

Jessica Hathaway

Keith Decker will join American Aquafarms as CEO. Keith Decker via LinkedIn photo.

Keith Decker to lead American Aquafarms

NF Staff

Alaska pollock. NMFS photo.

Alaska Pollock: With strong global demand, U.S. production ramped up in 2021

Charlie Ess

Chuck Bundrant, founder of Trident Seafoods, with his son Joe aboard the F/V Bountiful in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, 1979. Trident Seafoods photo

Telling the story of Chuck Bundrant

Guest Author

Bering Sea pollock fishing — Pollock survey. NOAA photo

Trawl overhaul? Alaska fishermen go to bat for kings and crabs

Jessica Hathaway

BOEM is considering calls to change plans for New York Bight wind energy areas, including vessel transit lanes (blue corridors) and a buffer zone for the Hudson Canyon scallop access area (blue area). BOEM graphic.

Offshore wind plans court disaster, fishermen warn

Kirk Moore

Dungeness crab. Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute photo

Alaska’s Dungeness crab prices double, halibut and blackcod also on the rise

Laine Welch

Kinematics Bristol Bay Gillnetter — Kevin Wilson, deckhand on the F/V Curragh, standing on the back deck of a 32-foot salmon gillnetter on his first day of the season in Alaska’s Bristol Bay Naknek River fishing district. Kinematics Marine Equipment

OnDeck in the Pacific Northwest & Alaska: Nets & Haulers

NF Staff

University of Massachusetts researchers are using fisheries surveys in a first study to assess effects when the Vineyard Wind offshore energy project is built. Vineyard Wind image.

Vineyard Wind fisheries study to assess effect of offshore turbines

Kirk Moore