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...
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...
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 [Letters], May 15, 2015 By Chris Woodley In keeping with our policy on Halibut, both Peggy and I have comments on this letter from Chris Woodley, who is Executive Director of the Groundfish Forum representing the Amendment 80 fleet: John Sackton: I...
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [KUCB], May 27, 2014 By Lauren Rosenthal The new year will likely bring new fisheries to the western Aleutian Islands, now that the National Marine Fisheries Service has issued its final report on the way commercial fishing affects an endangered...
