Alaska
Fishing Families and Women in Alaska’s Fisheries Research highlights fishing family dynamics and women's roles in Alaska’s fisheries. August 21, 2020 Over recent decades, Alaska’s fisheries have undergone many regulatory, environmental, social, and economic changes, which have differentially affected dynamics in fishing families. Researchers from the Alaska Fisheries Science Center explored these changes and their effects on fishing families in a series of focus groups held throughout Gulf of Alaska fishing communities in 2017 and 2018. These focus groups covered three topics examining family roles and gender division of labor; impacts of management, environmental, economic and social conditions on these roles; and, the future of fishing families and women in Alaska's fisheries. The research demonstrates the integral work of women in fishing families and their dynamic roles in Alaska’s fisheries more broadly. It further showcases how fishing families have, and continue to, adapt to multifaceted conditions in Alaska’s fisheries. This research has resulted in several scientific journal publications and web stories (which are available below), and is an ongoing effort to document novel conditions, adaptations, and resilience. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/fishing-families-and-women-alaskas-fisheries All Four of Unalaska's Processing Plants Now Affected by COVID-19 as UniSea Employee Tests Positive KUCB by Hope McKenney - August 24, 2020 City officials reported a new positive case of COVID-19 in Unalaska Monday, bringing the positive local case count to 99. https://www.kucb.org/post/all-four-unalaskas-processing-plants-now-affected-covid-19-unisea-employee-tests-positive Environment/Science Alaskan salmon are decreasing in size thanks to climate change and riskier oceans, study says CNN by Lauren M. Johnson - August 21, 2020 Alaskan salmon are getting smaller due to climate change and competition, according to a new study. The authors researched over six decades of data from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game -- from 1957 to 2018 -- on over 12.5 million fish. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alaskan-salmon-are-decreasing-in-size-thanks-to-climate-change-and-riskier-oceans-study-says/ar-BB18cXWc Labeling and Marketing 3MMI - What Happened to Wild Salmon Populations in BC? TradexFoods - August 24, 2020 In this week's report, we investigate What Happened to Wild Salmon Populations in British Columbia Canada as DFO (or Fisheries and Oceans Canada) is presiding over some of the lowest wild Pacific Salmon runs in Canadian history. In this report, we focus on the Suspension of MSC Certification for Sockeye's, Pink's and Chum's, we exhibit the management (or mis-management) of the fisheries by DFO, and we disclose the facts on how open net pen Farmed Salmon on the west coast are affecting Wild Salmon stocks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=VjE_zg1xnTM&feature=emb_logo Federal Register North Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting A Notice by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on 08/24/2020 The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) Groundfish Plan Teams will meet via webconference September 8, 2020 through September 11, 2020. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/08/24/2020-18485/north-pacific-fishery-management-council-public-meeting FYI’s Symphony of Seafood 2020-21 features salmon, whitefish The Cordova Times - August 24, 2020 A call for product has been issued for the 28th annual Alaska Symphony of Seafood, inviting market ready entries in new salmon and whitefish product categories, plus competition for retail, food service and beyond the plate. https://www.thecordovatimes.com/2020/08/24/symphony-of-seafood-2020-21-features-salmon-whitefish/
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