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Salmon

The commercial salmon season is in full swing. Shutterstock photo.

Wild Alaska salmon prices holding their own in retail markets

Margaret Bauman

NOAA Fisheries scientists sort fish during the spring 2024 Rockfish Recruitment and Ecosystem Assessment Survey. These surveys reveal a coastal ocean dominated by a booming population of northern anchovy in recent years. NOAA Fisheries photo.

Vitamin deficiency is killing salmon in California

Margaret Bauman

Going, going, gone. The last of the moderately priced Copper River sockeye salmon fillets are about gone in Anchorage markets, but still for sale at one online shop for $56.95 a pound. Pike Place Fish Market in Seatle had the Copper River sockeye fillets for $39.95 a pound. Margaret Bauman photo.

Copper River reds tracking below forecast, pinks predicted to soar

Margaret Bauman

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Salmon and forests are telling us we are about out of time

Margaret Bauman

The spillway of the Lower Granite Lake Dam on the Snake River in Washington, USA. Shutterstock photo.

Trump revokes Columbia salmon pact

NF Staff

Trawling vessels in Seattle, WA. Photo by Ian Dewar Photography / Shutterstock

Trawl tensions rise as NPFMC meets in Oregon

Guest Author

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Too early to tell if Copper River sockeye run will fall short of forecast

Margaret Bauman

Bering Sea pollock come aboard a trawler. NMFS video image.

NMFS reports 24 percent cut in Alaska staffing

NF Staff

Margaret Bauman photo.

Copper River harvest appears to be tracking below forecast

Margaret Bauman

In 2024,, Lisa, Brian Gabriel, and others experimented with beach seining to harvest sockeye salmon without harming Chinooks. Some of the crew are learning to haul the nets on a beach in Upper Cook Inlet. Photo by Brian Gabriel

Cook Inlet setnetters told to wait for 2027

Paul Molyneaux

A Gillnet boat in Cordova, Alaska. Coleman Peebles photo - Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Copper River opener sockeye harvest well below forecast

Margaret Bauman