Owners of the 501(c)(3) non-profit Gig Harbor BoatShop and the Seattle-based research institute Washington Sea Grant have stepped up to fill a growing need for crew aboard commercial seiner fishing […]
Nineteen seiners engaged in the Togiak herring fishery have harvested upwards of 14,000 tons to date, with an average size of 372 grams and 11.7 percent roe maturity, according to […]
A magistrate on Prince of Wales Island handed down the sentence on January 10 against Curtis Demmert, 32, of Klawock, Alaska. It includes a $32,728.79 fine, 180 days of suspended […]
Commercial harvesters in the Southeast Alaska salmon drift gillnet fishery, mandated for observation under the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act, say changes are needed in the program because it’s disrupting […]
A majority of the 379 permit holders in the Southeast Alaska salmon purse seine fishing fleet have approved a National Marine Fisheries Service plan to repay a fishing capacity reduction […]
Fishermen’s News July 2011 By Margaret Bauman For the second year in a row, the South Peninsula fishing fleet has decided to sit out the first opener of the salmon […]
Bob Tkacz Responding to concerns from salmon processors that harvesting capacity could be reduced too much, an Alaska Senate committee has conditioned passage of a bill, critical to a federally […]
By Devin Lucas, Samantha Case and Richie Evoy – National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Introduction Commercial fishing is a dangerous job with many challenges and competing priorities. With […]
The Gig Harbor BoatShop in Gig Harbor, Wash. is offering a purse seine vessel crew member training program for four days, beginning March 26, on fundamental commercial fishing crewmember training, […]
Pacific salmon are fundamental to the livelihoods, culture and spiritual lives of thousands of British Columbians, as they are in America’s Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Sadly, climate change, habitat degradation […]