A salmon shortfall in Alaska, and predictions of tight wild salmon supplies globally, pushed up dock prices to the highest levels seen in decades.
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Candidates for AK governor and US Congress to debate fisheries issues at Kodiak; Dave Bronson doesn’t take the bait
AK pink salmon catches/prices surge; overall harvest falls short
AK fishermen get highest pink prices since 1988; all prices soar as global supplies face a squeeze.
David Bayes: Watch Where Seattle’s Trawl Money Hides
Are CDQ groups being used as “political camouflage” by large industrial Outsiders as they fight fishing reforms from behind the names of Alaska villages?
NOAA announces 2026 grants aimed at reducing bycatch
Major emphasis is on proposals that include “proactive and meaningful engagement with the fishing industry” in designing projects.
Savoonga, AK Celebrates Official Opening of New Pacific Halibut Plant in Northern Bering Sea
The new plant at Savoonga, on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, provides easier access to the halibut fishing grounds.
Nat’l Fisherman: Alaska’s cod potting fleet just got a bright new upgrade
Pot lights produce higher catch rates, less hauling time, reduced ecosystem impacts and in some cases, no bait is needed.
Nat’l Fisherman: Judge finds decades of failures in coastal fisheries management
The court identified inadequate fisheries data, slow revisions to management plans, limited enforcement and use of shrimp trawls and gillnets in estuarine waters among the problems with the state’s management system.
ADN: Underwater data center proposed for Alaska’s Cook Inlet by East Coast company
Plans call for a 100-megawatt data center, up to 350 underwater turbines and 66 “hives” for AI servers in a 1,650-acre corridor in Cook Inlet west of Nikiski at depths of 45 to 166 feet.
Kevin McCabe: Not All Trawl Is the Same. That’s Exactly the Point.
“Public patience is wearing thin. If the fishing industry refuses to draw the line at the bottom, the public eventually will.”
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Trump administration ends NOAA support for annual Arctic Report Card
Alaska Beacon by Yereth Rosen, 08/12/2026ASMI Adds New “Seafood Sustains Alaska” Videos to Alaska Airport Rotation
Expana by Natasha Estremera, 08/12/2026The Winding Glass: What Alaska has Lost
Seafoodnews.com by John Sackton, 08/03/2026Opinion: U.S. needs to refocus ocean management on ecosystem conservatio
Anchorage Daily News by Rick Steiner, 07/31/2026Bristol Bay Sockeye Run Tops Pre-Season Forecast; Harvest Closing In
Seafoodnews.com by Peggy Parker, 07/24/2026Shedding New Light on Yukon River Chinook Salmon Declines
NOAA Fisheries, 07/08/2026
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