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...
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...
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [KUCB/Seafood.com], April 10, 2013 By Stephanie Joyce The National Marine Fisheries Service recently released a court-ordered draft environmental impact statement, intended to be the first step in resolving the decades-long debate over Steller sea...
Watch the new video just released on the project, hosted and produced by AbundantOceans. Concern about Steller Sea Lions has led to the closure of significant fishing areas off of the coast of Alaska. Scientific uncertainty and a lack of good data are often cited for...
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS, June 12, 2012 By John Sackton NMFS has announced an independent peer review panel contracted through the Center for Independent Experts (CIE) to consider the November 2010 biological opinion on the impact of groundfisheries on steller sea lions. The...