Alaska Dispatch News [Commentary], May 28, 2015 By John Gauvin As a fishery scientist who has worked for more than 20 years with trawl fishermen to reduce salmon, crab and halibut bycatch, I find the recent rhetoric around proposed North Pacific Fisheries Management...
NOAA Fisheries Feature Stories Researchers tackle unseen crab mortality in Alaskan groundfish fisheries…..click here to read about their win for Best Paper Award from The Fishery Bulletin!
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [News Analysis], April 7, 2014 By John Sackton The 2014 steller sea lion biological opinion released last week represents a stunning and very welcome turnaround for NOAA. The reason is not that the new opinion will allow the reopening of some fishing...
To read about NOAA Fisheries scientists and partners like Alaska Seafood Cooperative and Bering Sea flatfish fishing industry members collaborated to modify the gear so it reduces the damage to important bottom habitat, click here.
Seafood.com News [Cordova Times], February 3, 2012 By Margaret Bauman A federal judge has ruled that commercial fishing restrictions aimed at protecting endangered Steller sea lions were properly imposed, because the sea lions are not getting enough food. U.S....