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The City of Kenai Boat Launch into Cook Inlet is photographed May 14, 2020. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

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Copper River Seafoods halting Kenai operations this salmon season

The company salmon cited the fisheries management plan, rising production costs and the poor forecast

Commercial fishing and other boats are moored in the Homer Harbor in this file photo. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Seawatch: Halibut season starts, but with no deliveries yet

Halibut dock prices could hit $8 a pound.

Commercial fishing and other boats are moored in the Homer Harbor in this file photo. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Seawatch: Dismal sockeye run return forecast for Upper Cook Inlet

Fish and Game says 2022 sockeye run will be 1 million fewer than last year.

Commercial fishing and other boats are moored in the Homer Harbor in this file photo. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Seawatch: IPHC raises total halibut removals from all fisheries

The International Pacific Halibut Commission finished up their annual meeting last week by raising total halibut removals from…

Commercial fishing and other boats are moored in the Homer Harbor in this file photo. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Seawatch: Eight fisheries qualify for disaster declarations

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that eight fisheries, from salmon to cod to Tanner crab,…

Commercial fishing and other boats are moored in the Homer Harbor in this file photo. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Seawatch: Shellfish purchases drop while finfish is up

Demand for healthy seafood goes up, but supply-chain issues impact sales.

Michael Armstrong, seated, in sled, gives his mother, Sylvia Jander, the unique Alaska experience of driving a sled-dog team in February 1989 in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Jenny Stroyeck)

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Fill out the squares of the Alaska Adventure Bingo Card

Moose, bears, sled dogs wolves, whales oh my: Alaska offers many adventures to check off.

Image via Alaska Board of Fisheries

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Statewide shellfish meeting rescheduled

This comes after the board bumped back its Southeast and Yakutat shellfish meeting

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Locals appointed to state bycatch task force

The mission of the task force will be to better understand the unintended bycatch of fish caught in…

Commercial fishing and other boats are moored in the Homer Harbor in this file photo. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Seawatch: ‘Frankenfish’ hit market, but with labeling rules

Though bio-engineered fish weren’t banned, efforts to identify them succeeded.

Pike prey on rearing salmon. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game)

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Fish retention at some peninsula lakes restricted in 2022 due to pike impacts

Restrictions exist for East and West Mackey, Sevena, Union, Derks and Stormy lakes in 2022

Commercial fishing and other boats are moored in the Homer Harbor in this file photo. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Seawatch: Alaska had a tumultuous fishing year

It was a tumultuous year for fishing in Alaska, with some salmon runs posting records and others going…

Upper Cook Inlet Exclusive Economic Zone can be seen on this map provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Image via fisheries.noaa.gov)

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Municipalities still working to oppose EEZ closure

The waters in question run from south of Kalgin Island to about Anchor Point