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Seawatch: Seafood industry feels impact from coronavirus
As the global pandemic of the novel coronavirus disrupts all sorts of industries around the world, the seafood…
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Seawatch: Report claims mining harms fish
As many Alaskans confront a governor who, according to CNN, lobbies foreign mining companies to invest in Pebble…
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Seawatch: Sitka herring fishery likely won’t open
The Sitka Sound herring fishery will likely not open again this season, but at least this year it…
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Seawatch: Board of Fisheries tips scale toward sport fishing
The Alaska Board of Fisheries wrapped up their 2020 meetings on Upper Cook Inlet salmon proposals last week…
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Seawatch: Russian seafood embargo hurts Alaska fishing
While the U.S. trade war with China gets most of the headlines, there has been an ongoing embargo…
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Seawatch: Most halibut quotas set lower
The International Pacific Halibut Commission wrapped up its meeting in Anchorage last week with all areas of Alaska…
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Seawatch: ADFG predicts low king runs
As Upper Cook Inlet fishermen prepare for the always-contentious Alaska Board of Fisheries meetings for the area starting…
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Seawatch: Ocean acidification affecting crab shells
Just at a time when crab stocks in the central Gulf of Alaska are taking off, likely in…
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Seawatch: BOF cuts Mainland fishery
Kodiak seiners were stunned by decisions from the Alaska Board of Fisheries in their meeting last week to…
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Seawatch: Satellite tags reveal new info on P-cod
Last winter, scientists and Alaska fishermen agreed to launch a pilot study to develop methods for tagging cod…
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Seawatch: NOAA rolls out new research initiative
It has often been said that humans know more about the surface of the moon than the bottom…
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Seawatch: Report: 60% of comm-fish jobs are Alaskan
The McDowell Group, a consulting and research firm based in Alaska and Seattle, has released its annual industry…
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Seawatch: NPMC closes cod season in Gulf of Alaska
In a disappointing but not surprising move, the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council closed the Gulf of Alaska…