SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Free Press Online], August 14, 2015 By Christine Parish On July 31, O’Hara Corporation launched the first American fishing vessel that will be able to chase fish through polar ice off the coast of Alaska. Now in its fifth generation, the O’Hara family...
undercurrentnews.com, August 11, 2015 By Jeanine Stewart The O’Hara Corporation christened the first new vessel to join Alaska’s flatfish sector in nearly three decades this summer, marking a major milestone for the aging fleet and sending waves of excitement through...
JuneauEmpire.com [Letters], July 7, 2015 By Lori Swanson In Tuesday’s ‘My Turn’ feature, Mr. Grutter states that the North Pacific Fishery Management Council halibut bycatch reductions approved in June are a ‘non-action.’ He may be disappointed with the outcome, but...
Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) News, June 24, 2015 Click here to read the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) final report on Bering Sea canyons plus some interview questions from Chris Rooper, a NOAA Fisheries Research...
SeafoodSource.com, June 10, 2015 By Christine Blank, contributing editor Flatfish catcher-processors are worried about the impact on their business and jobs in the sector after the North Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to reduce halibut bycatch by 25 percent....
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Alaska Journal of Commerce] , June 8, 2015 By DJ Summers SITKA — The North Pacific Fishery Management Council made its second controversial compromise of the year on June 7, again related to bycatch in the Bering Sea and again after lengthy,...
