Seafoodnews.com, December 3, 2015 By John Sackton Halibut deck sorting has helped flatfish catcher-processors reduce halibut bycatch this season. The fleet also used halibut excluders and changed locations to avoid halibut hotspots. The net result is that the flatfish...
Alaska Journal of Commerce, December 2, 2015 By DJ Summer Dave Jacobs, left, and Steve Curl watch as Anthony Ballam lowers a halibut into the hold of the Independence in Cook Inlet. Cook Inlet, which is in Area 3A for charter halibut removals, has a recommended cut in...
Pacific Fishing, Dutch Harbor Report, December 2015 By Jim Paulin Economic development: Despite factory trawler opposition, Adak has won guaranteed minimum amount of Pacific cod each year. Located some 350 miles west of Dutch Harbor, Adak is a former Cold War military...
National Fisherman, November 2015 By Larry Chowning The 194-foot Araho was launched July 31 at the Eastern Shipbuilding Group in Panama City, Fla., for the O’Hara Corp., of Rockland, Maine. Delivery, however, won’t be until the spring of 2016, when she will go through...
Fishermen’s News, October 1, 2015 O’Hara Corporation’s new freezer trawler, launched on Aug. 31 by Eastern Shipbuilding Group in Panama City, Florida, will join the Amendment 80 fleet in the Bering Sea in 2016. Company officials say it will be used...
undercurrentnews.com, August 20, 2015 By Jeanine Stewart Late one night on the remote island of Unalaska, the site of Alaska’s tiny groundfish processing town Dutch Harbor, Korean-born Fishermen’s Finest founder and CEO Helena Park went from fisherman’s wheelhouse to...
