It was not quite a hurricane, but Alaska’s abysmal pink salmon run this year did enough damage that the state’s governor, Bill Walker, thinks it should be declared a disaster, a move that would free up federal funds for struggling fishermen.
Walker sent a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker last week asking for an expedited review of the Kodiak, Prince William Sound, Lower Cook Inlet and Chignik management areas
… Read MoreA late but bountiful 2016 sockeye run in Alaska’s Bristol Bay was the second largest in the last 20 years, trailing only last season’s massive tally.
Preliminary numbers released earlier this month by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said 51.4 million sockeye salmon ran into the five districts in the bay, well over the 20-year average.
“Average is about 35 million total, so whatever is going on out there in the ocean appears to be
… Read MoreAlaska’s Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association (BBRSDA) recently launched a pilot project designed to boost sockeye salmon sales among millennial consumers.
The campaign, which started 1 September, will run through the end of 2016 and in theo Boulder, Colorado media market, where BBRSDA hopes to take advantage of a concentration of younger, food conscious consumers. The results of the pilot will inform a national rollout of a
… Read MoreA new study by NOAA shows both fishing and climate change have contributed to large variations in the spawning time of walleye pollock stocks in the Gulf of Alaska.
An unprecedented data set spanning 32 years showed that spawn times swung up to three weeks for Alaska pollock, the largest fishery by volume in the United States. The study identified warming water and fishing impact as major contributors to these swings.
Warmer waters, NOAA
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