Alaska Alaska Employment: Construction Job Growth Offsets Seafood Processing Losses in July Alaska Magazine - August 19, 2024 Faster growth in year-over-year job totals couldn’t budge the statewide unemployment rate. The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development puts the seasonally adjusted figure for July at 4.5 percent, unchanged from May and June. https://www.akbizmag.com/industry/government/alaska-employment-construction-job-growth-offsets-seafood-processing-losses-in-july/ Down year for Alaska salmon fishery may spell end of some Alaska seafood businesses "I hope [the situation] doesn't force the big wholesale buyers ... to say, 'I'm done with this. I can't handle the small fish.'" Seafood Source by Cliff White - August 21, 2024 Salmon catch totals and fish sizes have been disappointing thus far in the U.S. state of Alaska’s summer season, potentially accelerating the ongoing shakeout taking place in Alaska’s seafood sector. https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-trade/down-year-for-alaska-salmon-fishery-may-spell-end-of-some-alaska-seafood-businesses *Requires Subscription UW-FRI 2025 Preliminary Bristol Bay Forecast Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association - August 19, 2024 The Bristol Bay fisheries community expressed interest in a preliminary preseason forecast for Bristol Bay sockeye salmon abundance in the coming year (2025), based upon data available at the time of the last daily in season release (late-July 2024) from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G). Based on this interest we developed a preliminary preseason forecast for Bristol Bay run size in 2025. As this preliminary preseason forecast is made prior to both finalized inseason data for the 2024 run and the formal run reconstruction process, this should be considered an advisory rather than a formal forecast given its lower accuracy and aggregated summary across stocks. https://www.bbrsda.com/updates/2024/8/19/uw-fri-2025-preliminary-bristol-bay-forecast Environment/Science Snow Crab Collapse Due to Ecological Shift in the Bering Sea Arctic conditions that dominated in the preindustrial Bering Sea are expected to continue to decline over the next 1-2 decades. NOAA Fisheries - August 21, 2024 NOAA Fisheries scientists attribute the abrupt collapse of snow crab in Alaska to borealization, or an ecological shift from Arctic to sub-Arctic conditions in the southeastern Bering Sea due to human-caused climate change. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/snow-crab-collapse-due-ecological-shift-bering-sea Federal Register Pacific Halibut Fisheries of the West Coast; Inseason Action for the 2024 Area 2A Pacific Halibut Directed Commercial Fishery A Rule by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on 08/22/2024 NMFS announces inseason action for the 2024 Pacific halibut non-Tribal directed commercial fishery in the International Pacific Halibut Commission's (IPHC) regulatory Area 2A. This action adds a fishing period, August 27 through August 29, 2024, with a fishing period catch limit of 1,400 pounds (0.64 metric tons (mt)) per vessel, dressed weight. This action is intended to provide opportunity to achieve the 2024 non-tribal directed commercial fishery allocation. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/22/2024-18744/pacific-halibut-fisheries-of-the-west-coast-inseason-action-for-the-2024-area-2a-pacific-halibut North Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting A Notice by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on 08/23/2024 The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) Crab Plan Team will meet September 9, 2024, through September 12, 2024. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/23/2024-18888/north-pacific-fishery-management-council-public-meeting Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Pacific Cod by Catcher/Processors Using Trawl Gear in the Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska A Rule by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on 08/23/2024 NMFS is prohibiting retention of Pacific cod by catcher/processors using trawl gear in the Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary because the 2024 total allowable catch of Pacific cod allocated to catcher/processors using trawl gear in the Central Regulatory Area of the GOA has been reached. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/23/2024-18916/fisheries-of-the-exclusive-economic-zone-off-alaska-pacific-cod-by-catcherprocessors-using-trawl
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