Alaska
Kodiak Economic Development Corporation working with kelp farms to grow their business
KMXT by Davis Hovey - November 22, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving the Kodiak Economic Development Corporation $80,000 to foster and expand mariculture in the Kodiak Archipelago. This funding will help the corporation develop a business plan for 13 kelp farms in Southwest Alaska.
Cordova City Council, CDFU officially oppose Prop 78 ahead of December Board of Fish meetings
Cordova Times by Margaret Bauman - November 22, 2024
A proposal to reduce current pink salmon production in Prince William Sound hatcheries now has opposition from the Cordova City Council and Cordova District Fishermen United (CDFU) in advance of Alaska Board of Fisheries meetings in Cordova from Dec. 10-16.
The Outlook for Alaska’s seafood industry | Alaska Insight
Alaska Public Media by Madilyn Rose - November 22, 2024
A convergence of factors are challenging Alaska fisheries. Climate change, fluctuations in market demand and foreign competition are all putting pressure on fishermen and processors.
West Coast
Oregon, California delay commercial Dungeness crab seasons
Seafood Source by Nathan Strout - November 22, 2024
The U.S. states of Oregon and California have delayed the start of their commercial Dungeness crab seasons due to concerns over the presence of humpback whales and high domoic acid concentrations.
Threatened Coho Salmon Return to Upper Klamath River Basin for First Time in More Than 60 Years
SeafoodNews.com by Susan Chambers - November 25, 2024
Now, this is something to salmon-brate!First Chinook, now threatened coho have been documented returning to the upper Klamath River Basin after four dams were removed this year.The California Department of Fish Wildlife said it’s been at least 60 years, not since the construction of the former Iron Gate Dam in the early 1960s, since agency personnel documented coho salmon occupying their historic habitat in the upper watershed. Roughly 420 miles of new habitat was opened following dam removals.On Nov. 13, seven coho salmon entered CDFW’s new Fall Creek Fish Hatchery in Siskiyou County, a formerly inaccessible Klamath River tributary about 7.5 miles upstream of the former Iron Gate Dam location.“To see coho successfully returning this quickly to this new habitat post-dam removal is exciting,” Eric Jones, a Senior Environmental Scientist who oversees CDFW’s north state hatchery operations, said in a press release. “We’ve already seen the Chinook make it back and now we’re seeing the coho make it back.”The Fall Creek Fish Hatchery, a $35 million, state-of-the-art facility in its first year of operation, began spawning returning fall-run Chinook salmon in late October. To date, the hatchery has spawned 100 fish and collected 277,393 eggs. The hatchery has an ambitious annual production goal of 3.25 million fall-run Chinook salmon.Of the seven coho salmon that entered the Fall Creek Fish Hatchery last week, four were male and three were female. Two had missing adipose fins, identifying them as being of hatchery origin. The other five were natural origin fish.The returning coho are being kept at the Fall Creek Hatchery pending genetic testing at the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center laboratory in Santa Cruz. Geneticists will determine which of the seven coho are the least related genetically and direct the spawning of those pairs to maximize genetic diversity.Coho salmon in the Klamath Basin are listed as a threatened species under both state and federal endangered species acts. Coho salmon typically return to freshwater to spawn in the late fall and winter, later than the more numerous fall-run Chinook salmon.CDFW’s Fall Creek Fish Hatchery has an annual production goal of raising 75,000 coho salmon to help restore populations in the upper Klamath River Basin post dam-removal.Additionally, CDFW recently released approximately 270,000 yearling, fall-run Chinook salmon into Fall Creek, the last Klamath Basin hatchery release of the year and the first release following dam removal. The year-old juvenile salmon, approximately 4 to 6 inches in length, were released over four days, mostly at dusk to improve survival, and allowed to swim freely out of the hatchery into Fall Creek without handling.“We’re releasing various life histories so that gives the fish a chance to out-migrate at different times of the year mimicking what we would see in the river naturally,” Crystal Robinson, Senior Environmental Scientist and CDFW’s Klamath Watershed Program Supervisor, said in the statement.Hatchery salmon released as yearlings in the fall show some of the highest rates of return as adults, which is attributed to their larger size at release and optimal fall river conditions with cool temperatures and strong flows.
US government awards USD 9 million for Pacific salmon recovery research
Seafood Source by Nathan Strout - November 25, 2024
NOAA Fisheries has awarded USD 9 million (EUR 8.6 million) for academic research designed to help Pacific salmon populations recover.
US retailers, seafood companies vie for share of Thanksgiving grocery sales boost
"While leftover meals with turkey are tradition, too, at a certain point, people are ready for something very different, and that can be seafood.”
Seafood Source by Christine Blank - November 25, 2024
Retailers in the U.S. are vying to capitalize on an estimated increase in American grocery spending as the country's Thanksgiving holiday approaches.
Labeling and Marketing
3MMI - Global Dungeness & Snow Crab Update: Openings, Supply, Outlook
Tradex Foods - November 25, 2024
Dungeness and Snow Crab update as the holiday season approaches. Global Dungeness Crab update for Alaska, B.C, and the Tri-states including Washington, Oregon, and California. Global Snow Crab update for Alaska, Canada, Norway, and Russia. Watch to Find Out More.
OPINION: CDQ program and pollock fishery are essential to Western Alaska
Anchorage Daily News by Eric Deakin, Ragnar Alstrom and Michael Link - November 24, 2024
We work every day to support Alaska’s rural communities through the Community Development Quota (CDQ) program and have seen firsthand the lifeline the program provides to our state’s most isolated and economically vulnerable areas.
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