Alaska
Alaska’s pink returns cause a low salmon harvest year overall
KFSK by Angela Denning - December 2, 2024
Alaska’s commercial salmon harvests plummeted this year, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The department’s annual report shows that the statewide harvest of just over 100 million fish was the third lowest on record. And the pounds harvested — 450 million — were the lowest on record. The numbers came with a decline in the fishery’s overall value, too.
Alaska Yellowfin Sole Faces Lowest Harvest in Decades
Fishermen's News - December 4, 2024
Online trade publication Tradex reported Dec. 2 that Alaska’s yellowfin sole fishery is facing one of its lowest harvests in decades, which is expected to drastically reduce supply and the ability to meet the demand for this fish.
Trump's tariffs threat strikes fear into Mexico seafood importers
President-elect Donald Trump has singled out North American trade partners Mexico and Canada, telling them he will go through with his threat of imposing tariffs unless they tackle the issue of illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
Intrafish by John Evans - December 3, 2024US importers of seafood from Mexico are worried about the potential impact of tariffs on their goods under the incoming Trump administration.
The record-low Bering Sea ice conditions of 2018 expected to be repeated in coming years
As the Northern Bering Sea ecosystem emerges from the extraordinary warmth that wreaked havoc on Alaska fisheries, wildlife and communities, a study warns of likely future occurrences
Alaska Beacon by Yereth Rosen - December 4, 2024
In 2018, when winter ice in the Bering Sea was scarcer than at any time since records began in the mid-1800s, the effects cascaded.
Research Team Designs Technology to Measure Carbon Dioxide in Oceans
Fishermen's News - December 4, 2024
New technology developed by University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers and their industry partners would enable an unmanned underwater vehicle to measure carbon dioxide in the ocean, to help develop climate change adaptation plans.
Federal Register
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands; Proposed 2025 and 2026 Harvest Specifications for Groundfish
A Proposed Rule by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on 12/04/2024
NMFS proposes 2025 and 2026 harvest specifications, apportionments, and prohibited species catch allowances for the groundfish fisheries of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) management area. This action is necessary to establish harvest limits for groundfish during the 2025 and 2026 fishing years and to accomplish the goals and objectives of the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (FMP). The 2025 harvest specifications supersede those previously set in the final 2024 and 2025 harvest specifications, and the 2026 harvest specifications will be superseded in early 2026 when the final 2026 and 2027 harvest specifications are published. The intended effect of this action is to conserve and manage the groundfish resources in the BSAI in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act).
PicoICE Made from Seawater Introduced to Alaska Fisheries
Fishermen's News - December 4, 2024
When the f/v Seabrooke begins fishing out of Akutan in the Aleutian Islands in January, plans are for the Circle Seafoods vessel to be equipped with the technology to turn seawater into tiny ice crystals that form a protective slurry around the Pacific cod catch.
NMFS Announces Decreased Fees for Loan Repayments
Fishermen's News - December 4, 2024
The National Marine Fisheries Service has announced a decrease in repayment fees for reduction loan financing for the non-pollock groundfish fishing capacity reduction program, effective Jan. 1.
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