The Iturup Island Salmon Fishery is the first in Russia to be awarded the MSC certification for sustainability and the only other salmon fishery besides Alaska to earn the MSC certification.  The certification is for the pink and chum fishery located on Iturup Island and consists of 18 significant rivers and streams including the Kurilijka river, […]

Marine Harvest Canada fish farm in Port Elizabeth, British Columbia Canada has managed to capture 1,100 of the escaped Atlantic salmon on Saturday of the 40,000 estimated to have escaped.  The commercial gillnet fishery has recovered a few more. This news article link is from the Times Colomnist http://www.timescolonist.com/fish+escape+farm/2141317/story.html#

Sec. of Interior announced during the AFN (Alaska Federation of Natives) convention held last week that the Federal Government will be reviewing the Alaska Federal Subsistence Program.  Since it has now become apparent that the State of Alaska will not be gaining back management control, it is time to review and streamline the federal subsistence […]

You should have received or receive in the next week information about your unoiled fishery claims from the Exxon Valdez spill.  If you don’t receive anything or have moved and have not provided them a current address (I think the last mailing to unoiled fisheries was about  the early 2000’s) please provide updated information through this […]

The following story reprinted from LAWS OF THE SEAS with permission. Stoltze to ASMI Board: ALL COMMERCIAL FISHING BILLS DEAD IN 2010 The cochairman of the Alaska House Finance Committee announced, at an Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute meeting, that he would kill any commercial fishing industry bills that reach his committee during the 2010 legislative […]

National Geographic has a new series about Alaska State Troopers.  The first airing is October 14th at 9:00 pm (AK time). The first episode is “Ice Patrol” and will be shown again on Oct 17th at 8:00pm “Crime on the Kenai” will be shown on Oct 21st at 9:00pm AK time and again on Oct […]

Two new cases of ISA were found, one in region 10 and one in region 11 and nine other suspected ISA outbreaks that are not yet confirmed in region 10 & 11.   Unfortunately, Norway production of farmed fish along with Scotland and Canada have been able to replace the lost imports from Chile.

A historic agreement was reached to demolish four dams on the upper Klamath River. The four dams have cut off 300 miles of fish rearing habitat despite a nearby fish hatchery, the salmon returns have continued to decline.  The fight to remove the dams started in 2002 when water diversion led to the death of […]

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