Fisheries

Cod quotas are lowered for the fourth straight year
Cod quotas are lowered for the fourth straight year

Russia and Norway have reached a deal for the 2025 fish quotas in northern…

Above Stikine River, Canadian government boosts huge mining project you’ve probably never heard of

Canada’s federal government plans to fund a key road at the Galore Creek development,…

Bering Sea snow crab fishing to resume, but at an ultra-low level to encourage repopulation
Bering Sea snow crab fishing to resume, but at an ultra-low level to encourage repopulation

After an unprecedented two-year closure, there are enough snow crab to support a ‘conservative’…

Alaska’s seafood industry lost $1.8 billion last year
Alaska’s seafood industry lost $1.8 billion last year

A variety of market forces combined with fishery collapses occurring in a rapidly changing…

Two Kodiak trawlers caught 2,000 king salmon. Now, a whole fishery is closed
Two Kodiak trawlers caught 2,000 king salmon. Now, a whole fishery is closed

The incident is sure to draw more scrutiny on the issue of bycatch —…

Tribal groups, seeking restrictions on Alaska’s Bering Sea trawlers, get day in court
Tribal groups, seeking restrictions on Alaska’s Bering Sea trawlers, get day in court

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason heard oral arguments Thursday in a lawsuit filed…

‘Huge disaster’: Historically weak pink salmon runs strain Alaska’s seine fishermen

Skippers in Prince William Sound and Kodiak say this year’s pink harvest is one…

Sanctions are not an obstacle: How Senator Zubarev’s ships dock in Norwegian ports, and his companies sell fish

Norwegian entrepreneurs have paid nearly $2 million to companies associated with Russian Senator Igor…