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Charlie Ess is the North Pacific Bureau Chief for National Fisherman.
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Kevin Wilson, deckhand on the F/V Curragh, standing on the back deck of a 32-foot salmon gillnetter on his first day of the season in Alaska’s Bristol Bay Naknek River fishing district. Kinematics Marine Equipment
Salmon processors set incentives for Bristol Bay season
Longlining Alaska Halibut aboard the Dues Payer II in Kodiak. Peter Thompson photo.
Processing capacity may slow early halibut, blackcod harvests
Alaska's Bristol Bay salmon industry on the brink. As overstuffed markets and looming high-volume harvests loom, the financial solvency of the industry hangs by a thread. Justin Del Boulter photo.
Bristol Bay salmon fishermen face uncertain 2024
Dozens of freshly caught sockeye salmon in the cooler of a commercial fishing boat. Photo by Ivan_Sabo on Shutterstock
Alaska salmon 2024: Markets still flooded as next harvest forecasts come in
2019 NF Highliner, Jack Schultheis. Photo by Andy Gulick
National Fisherman Highliner: Jack Schultheis
An Alaskan chinook salmon. Wild Fish Conservancy photo.
Chinook salmon fight escalates with Endangered Species Act petition
Alaska pollock. NOAA photo.
Alaska pollock may gain with expanded ban on Russian product
Bering Sea snow crab. NMFS photo.
Small Bering Sea red crab quota fills fast; starvation theory in opilio disappearance
Pat McBride with a deckload of blackcod from the western Aleutians during the 1980s. Photo courtesy Barb McBride.
Pat McBride, Aleutians blackcod pioneer, passes at 69
Sockeye salmon fills the drying racks in the village of Newhalen on Lake Iliamna. Scott Bartlett photo.
Battle flares anew over Alaska subsistence fisheries
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The final journey of F/V Carrabassett
Effective May 30, NOAA Fisheries will manage federal Cook Inlet federal EEZ fishing zones. The crew of the F/V Trinity 2023 salmon fishing in Cook Inlet. Photo by Josh Newton from Crew Shots
May 1, 2024
NOAA to manage federal salmon fishery in parts of Cook Inlet
Like all Newfoundland fishermen, Efford is a member of the FFAW, which works to negotiate a crab price for the season with the processor's organization. Photo by Immigrant92 on Shutterstock
May 1, 2024
An agreement on price in Canadian snow crab fishery
Salmon migration. USFWS/Togiak National Wildlife Refuge photo.
May 1, 2024
Commentary: More questions than answers on salmon
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