Last Frontier Discoveries & Research
Feds increase allowable GOA Pacific cod catch mid-season
Pacific cod markets are remaining firm as Alaska begins a critical fall production period with harvest.
Annual Confluence Summit set for Sept. 22-24
Place-based learning, practical resource connections and collaborative work will be the focus of the 11th annual Confluence Summit.
Wanted: Men for Cordova labor, 1906-1907
By Sept. 23, 1906, the Copper River railway workforce already topped 700 men.
GOA groundfish on NPFMC agenda for October meeting
Other major actions include final acceptable biological catch/overfishing limit (ABC/OFL) recommendations for GOA arrowtooth flounder, rex sole and skates.
Office of Seafood established by USDA
The office is to offer tailored assistance and resources to the American fisheries industry to increase seafood production, marketing and processing capacity.
Newborn northern sea otter pup survives orca attack that killed its...
A newborn female northern sea otter pup orphaned when her mother died in an attack from orca whales off the coast of Homer is...
PWSRCAC take stand against dispersants
Board members of the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council are taking a firm stand against use of chemical dispersants in an oil...
Local Catch Network forms bonds between small boat harvesters
Several dozen small boat harvesters, marketing directors, researchers and fisheries consultants concluded a seafood summit at a Southcentral Alaska ski resort on Monday with optimism spurred by networking to resolve the challenges facing their industry.
NPFMC takes up crab rebuilding plans
Harvesters of shellfish in the Bering Sea are facing a second year of multi-million-dollar losses with the demise of Bristol Bay red king crab,...
Scientists seek to identify Alaska’s mystery mushrooms
“We have so much work to do,” ecologist Kate Mohatt said. “It’s a continent-wide project aiming to identify every species of mushroom-producing fungi in North America, because, believe it or not, we’re not even close to having done that yet.”







