Seafoodnews.com [Bristol Bay Times], July 26, 2016 By Molly Dischner Salmon and halibut may get most of the fishing attention in Bristol Bay, but that’s not the only species caught commercially here. In a lesser-discussed endeavor, Bristol Bay Economic...
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...
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,...
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...
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...