Site Logo

News

Homer News to host Business After Hours event

As part of its 50th anniversary celebration, the Homer News will host this week’s Homer Chamber of Commerce…

Chamber opposes proposals that would hurt Homer’s commercial fishing fleet

News

Chamber opposes proposals that would hurt Homer’s commercial fishing fleet

Happy New Year, fellow residents. The Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center was closed for two weeks…

Homer’s Don Lane named to IPHC

News

Homer’s Don Lane named to IPHC

The International Pacific Halibut Commission kicked off its 2014 annual meeting on Monday with newly reappointed commissioner Jim…

Todd Hoppe, left, a board member of the North Pacific Fisheries Association, speaks in support of a resoultion urging the Board of Fish to reject proposals that would restrict the drift fleet. Matt Alward, right, owner of Bulletproof Nets, waits his turn to speak.                               -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

News

Council supports Homer drift fleet

The Homer City Council waded into statewide fisheries politics at its Monday night meeting, but it got a…

Conserving the Kenai king is a mandate for board, ADFG

News

Conserving the Kenai king is a mandate for board, ADFG

Editor’s note: This is the 10th and final part of the Morris Communications series “The case for conserving…

2014 may be turbulent for seafood industry

News

2014 may be turbulent for seafood industry

With the expected growth of the U.S. economy and continued weakness in many other parts of the world,…

Setnetters in the Kasilof Section of the East Side Setnet Fishery push a boat into shore June 27, 2013. On Monday, Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell rejected a proposed initiative that would have banned the use of setnets in Cook Inlet.

News

State rejects setnet initiative

An initiative proposing a ban on setnets in certain parts of the state was rejected Monday as a…

MARK LANDT-Photo provided

News

Buccaneer streamlines operations

Buccaneer Energy “has done a little reshaping, streamlining operations,” Jay Morakis of JMR Worldwide and the media contact…

News

UA to study integrating drones into U.S. airspace

JUNEAU — News that Alaska has been chosen as a test site for the integration of drones into…

Joe Edwards of Houston, Texas, watches as his king salmon weights in at 16.2 pounds at the Douglas Harbor for the Golden North Salmon Derby in August of 2011. Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Juneau said the 28-inch size limit for chinook salmon, while intended as a conservation measure, may be removing fast-growing fish from the population over time.

News

A king without a crown: Chinook vulnerable to ocean forces

Editor’s note: This is the ninth in the Morris Communications series “The case for conserving the Kenai king…

Endangered Species Act at work for 40 years

News

Endangered Species Act at work for 40 years

NOAA is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. President Nixon signed the ESA into law…

News

New laws take effect for 2014

JUNEAU — Several new laws are taking effect in Alaska with the new year, the biggest of which…

A spawned out sockeye salmon floats in Quartz Creek, an upper tributary to the Kenai River. Making sure the right amount of salmon reach the spawning grounds — known as an escapement goal — is the primary objective for Alaska Department of Fish and Game managers in the summer. That objective is a difficult one to achieve when sockeye are abundant and king salmon are not, as has been the case in the last several years. The way ADFG sets, and achieves, escapement goals is a matter of much debate because of the impacts on sport and commercial users as well as the impact missed goals can have on future returns.

News

Fishermen focus on how ADFG sets, achieves escapement goals

Editor’s note: This is the eighth in the Morris Communications series, “The case for conserving the Kenai king…