Ben Fisher is a Seattle-based freelance writer. Previously, he worked as night and copy editor at the Jerusalem Post, Israel’s largest English language newspaper, and as digital editor of Jewish Quarterly. He is fluent English, French, Hebrew, and Arabic.
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An agreement signed by state, federal, and trial officials after many years of deliberations has resulted in changes to the spill policies on the Snake and Columbia rivers that will benefit young salmon, according to The Seattle Times.
While the agreement is expected to increase the chance of survival of young fish, it was also careful to take into account the needs of the hydroelectricity companies that use the dams to create energy, so
… Read MoreAfter a test required by the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife showed that 800,000 of its juvenile farmed Atlantic salmon carried a strain of piscine orthoreovirus (PRV), Cooke Aquaculture Pacific destroyed the fish, according to the Seattle Times.
This is the second time the Canada-based company has had to destroy PRV-infected fish, the last time being in May 2017. The strain of PRV is the same that was found at the Icelandic
… Read MoreA drop in Alaskan halibut stocks will likely result in a tightening of next year’s charter regulations
… Read MoreFollowing the North Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting in Anchorage earlier this month, the total allowable catch (TAC) for Gulf of Alaska pollock and Pacific cod for 2019 has been reduced, while the Gulf of Alaska total allowable catch for sablefish in the coming year was slightly raised
… Read MoreThe halibut harvest for the year in fisheries in the United States and Canada was about 26.5 million pounds, or approximately ...
Image courtesy of the Alaska Seafood Marketing
… Read MoreRichard Beamish, a scientist recently retired from Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans, is planning an expedition across the Gulf of Alaska to better understand changes in salmon stocks.
Beamish, who is being financially supported by fish farm operators, said that scientists do not fully comprehend the rising and falling of wild salmon stocks. Beamish said the contract for the expedition had not yet been signed but that funding for
… Read MoreThe Alaskan razor clam harvest this year is expected to dip this year to around 175,940 pounds, a decline of more than 380,000 pounds from five years ago …
Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Fish and
… Read MoreThe Inter-Cooperative Exchange, an Alaskan crab fishing cooperative, has filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act to compel the National Marine Fisheries Service to release records related to how a NMFS employee interpreted an arbitration standard used by the NMFS to resolve disputes over the price paid for crab caught by ICE members
… Read MoreThe Grieg Group has invested CAD 2.1 million (USD 1.6 million, EUR 1.4 million) into its aquaculture operations in British Columbia, Canada
… Read MoreIn a midterm election which will likely have a significant impact on Alaska’s lucrative seafood industry, U.S. Representative Don Young was re-elected, State Senator Mike Dunleavy will become Alaska’s governor, and Ballot Measure 1, which sought to ensconce greater protections for salmon habitat, was defeated.
Young, the longest serving member of Congress (he has served since 1973), handily defeated his opponent, Alyse Galvin, who
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