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Kodiak, Chignik, and South Peninsula Remain Closed for Tanner Crab This Winter
SeafoodNews by Peggy Parker - October 24, 2025
The tanner crab season for the Kodiak, Chignik, and South Peninsula Districts will remain closed this year and for the first part of 2026 due to low abundance thresholds in each area.The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has established male crab abundance levels needed to open each fishery. Based on the 2025 survey results, only two of the six sections — the Southeast and Southwest — met the thresholds, but surplus abundance was not sufficient to meet the 100,000-pound minimum guideline harvest level (GHL) requirement in either section. All other sections of the Kodiak District were below regulatory abundance thresholds.In Chignik, a single mature male abundance threshold is established, and if it is reached, it must also be high enough to provide for a minimum GHL of 200,000 pounds before the district opens. Based on 2025 survey results, the Chignik District met the regulatory abundance threshold, but surplus abundance was not sufficient to meet the 200,000-pound minimum GHL requirement.Survey results in the South Peninsula District were similar, but the threshold for a minimum GHL is 200,000 pounds. Based on 2025 survey results, the Eastern Section met the regulatory abundance threshold, but surplus abundance was not sufficient to meet the 200,000-pound minimum GHL requirement; the Western Section was below the regulatory abundance threshold. Last year’s GHL for the commercial Kodiak District Tanner crab fishery was 560,000 pounds, less than a fifth of what it was in 2024, and less than ten percent of the harvest level in 2023.
Alaska Bering Sea snow crab fishery kicks off second season back with doubled catch limit
Seafood Source by Nathan Strout - October 27, 2025
Alaska’s commercial Bering Sea snow crab fishery kicked off its second season of the year with doubled catch limits – a positive sign for harvesters after the fishery was closed for multiple years due to a mortality event. The Bering Sea snow crab stock plummeted suddenly in 2021, with researchers later placing much of the blame on a marine heatwave and unfavorable ocean conditions. Regulators ended up closing the fishery for multiple years to allow the population to recover, and in
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United Fishermen of Alaska brings meeting back to Kodiak
KMXT by Brian Venua - October 24, 2025
The industry trade group held one of its two annual meetings in Kodiak Oct. 14 and 15 — the first time the island community hosted in at least 20 years.
Study shows impact Alaska Pollock Fishery has on economy
Alaska's News Source by Justin Mattson - October 26, 2025
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - There few fish that can challenge the mighty salmon’s necessity to Alaska, but if one fish could, it might be the Alaska pollock.Alaska’s pollock fishery is in U.S. water in the eastern Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska primarily.
Labeling and Marketing
3MMI - 2026 Global Whitefish Outlook: Less Fish, Higher Prices, Trade Realignment
Tradex Foods - October 27, 2025
The 2025 Groundfish Forum projects a 145,000-metric-tonne decline in global wild-capture whitefish supply for 2026, led by cuts in cod and pollock quotas across the North Atlantic and North Pacific. Prices remain at record highs as EU and U.S. demand outpaces supply, while processing continues to shift toward Asia despite rising costs. With new trade barriers, elevated freight rates, and strong farmed fish growth, 2026 is shaping up to be a year of tight supply, high prices, and shifting trade flows. Watch to Find Out More.
Tillamook County community volunteers bring bounties of salmon to local food banks
Each year, coho salmon from the North Fork Nehalem hatchery are caught, processed and packaged by the community for Tillamook County food banks.
KGW by Grant McOmie - October 24, 2025NEHALEM, Ore. — In Tillamook County, there’s a unique solution to hunger that connects local volunteers with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and a plentiful bounty of fall salmon, so families will have enough to eat.
In Memoriam
OBITUARY:Richard B. "Rick" LauberMarch 6, 1928 – September 6, 2025
Richard B. “Rick” Lauber, 97, of Juneau, Alaska, passed away peacefully on September 6, 2025. A devoted husband, father, and grandfather, Rick dedicated his life to public service and the maritime industries that define Alaska.
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