Alaska
Chinook salmon in Gulf of Alaska are choice of salmon sharks
Cordova Times by Margaret Bauman - February 6, 2025
Chinook salmon swimming in the Gulf of Alaska are an increasing food choice for salmon sharks, who eat squid, sablefish, sea otters, birds, walleye pollock, and herring – but primarily salmon.
Recommendations on reviving seafood industry now lies with the Legislature
Cordova Times by Margaret Bauman - February 5, 2025
A report compiled by a legislative group tasked with helping the state’s seafood industry out of an economic crisis has been approved by the 34th Alaska Legislature and now goes to committees in both houses to approve the next steps forward.
Alaska seafood processing plant still facing an uncertain future
Whether the plant reopens or not hinges on talks that have yet to produce a solution.
Intrafish by John Fiorillo - February 6, 2025
Efforts to reopen Peter Pan Seafood's processing facility in the remote city of King Cove, Alaska, are ongoing as city and state officials continue negotiating with Rodger May, the facility's owner.
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National
Crucial Alaska pollock fisheries decisions at stake as Trump administration takes aim at NOAA
Uncertainty surrounds how scientific research can proceed for Alaska pollock, groundfish and other species managed by NOAA.
Intrafish by Rachel Sapin - February 5, 2025
There is growing uncertainty regarding how the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will proceed with its management of Alaska's pollock and other federally managed fisheries, following Trump officials' threats to downsize the agency.
US seafood industry concerned by threat of staff reductions at NOAA
'We're concerned about cuts impacting the ability of the industry to access the resource. This does not seem like an outcome that the Trump administration would want. Nor industry' -- US seafood industry group executive...
Undercurrent News by Jacob Resneck - February 7, 2025
The seafood industry is concerned about reports of disruptions at the federal agency that oversees the regulation of commercial fishing in the US [...]...https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2025/02/07/us-seafood-industry-concerned-by-threat-of-staff-reductions-at-noaa/
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