Alaska works to help test arriving sockeye harvesters, plant workers for COVID
'We are in the process of shipping those out to many of our rural locations right now to make sure that communities have that testing capacity there in location' -- Anne Zink, Alaska chief medical officer
Alaska Airlines to help fill salmon country flight gap left by departure of Ravn
Alaska Airlines regional vice president Marilyn Romano said the first flights to the Bristol Bay hub communities are scheduled for May 18
25 senators push to include $3bn for seafood in next COVID relief bill
The group includes three Republicans and four former Democratic primary candidates for president
Ocean Beauty pays Alaska city $100,000 to settle lease default
The Seattle, Washington-based processor and distributor was a tenant of a property on Gibson Cove starting in late 2016 but vacated in May 2018
Fishermens’ co-op behind Alaska Gold lands Martello as marketing director
Becky Martello was the executive director of the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association for roughly 2.5 years
Alaska predicts 48.1m sockeye will be caught statewide this year, a 13% decrease
The expected statewide harvest of 48.1m sockeye compares to the 55.5m sockeye caught last year, representing a 13.3% decrease
US contractor blasts opening for salmon on Canada’s Fraser River
The work was carried out by Peter Kiewit Sons ULC, an Omaha, Nebraska-based firm awarded a CAD 17.6 million contract by the Canadian government in January
Fish Factor: Alaska gets good return on investment from its fisheries
Commercial fisheries expertise also sustains Alaska’s subsistence and most of the personal use fisheries
Harvesters not optimistic about coming 2020 BC wild salmon forecast
Just 485,900 sockeye returned to British Columbia's Fraser River in 2019 after a preseason forecast of 4,795,900 fish
GSMC 2020: US supply of large scallops to drop; India shrimp output likely to stabilize at 800,000t, 1m possible
The annual event, which is being held at the JW Marriott Orlando, Grande Lakes, Jan. 21-23, has more than 400 registered attendees