Brian Hagenbuch

For years, Arron Kallenberg kicked around the idea of leveraging his family’s three generations of Alaska commercial fishing heritage into a direct-to-consumer seafood business.

He finally took the leap to create the now-thriving Wild Alaskan Company in 2017, but said the story goes all the way back to 1926, when his grandfather, Robert C. Kallenberg, moved from New Jersey to Alaska and began commercial fishing on a wooden sailboat in

Alaska pollock producers know they turn out a healthy, sustainable, and abundant protein source with a relatively small carbon footprint. Now, they are hoping new marketing efforts will expose more households to the virtues of wild Alaska pollock and dramatically increase consumption of the fish.

The Alaska pollock fishery is the largest by volume in the United States, scooping up an average harvest of around 1.3 million metric tons over the

The Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers (GAPP) held its first-ever Wild Alaska Pollock Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington on Tuesday, 29 October. The tagline of the conference was “Celebrating our Perfect Protein” and featured talks from politicians, marketers, economists, retailers, and others.

The meeting focused on how industry professionals can push wild Alaska pollock to center stage as an abundant, healthy, and sustainable

Biologists were shocked in 2017 when they found that the numbers of Pacific cod had risen exponentially in the northern Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska. Now, researchers at NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center have used genetic testing to prove that those fish, enabled by warming waters and a lack of sea ice, have moved north from the southeastern Bering Sea.

Surveys as recent as the 1970’s revealed “trace amounts”

Raley’s Supermarkets has introduced a multi-pronged marketing approach for Bristol Bay sockeye salmon that uses in-store branding, video, and social media to promote Alaska sockeye salmon.

According to the West Sacramento, California-based grocer, which operates 129 stores in the U.S. west, the program has bumped sales of sockeye from Bristol Bay up 35 percent from 2018.

The campaign, a partnership with the Bristol Bay Regional Development

Opponents of the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska applauded U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who last week stood behind language critical of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on the proposed open-pit copper, gold, and molybdenum mine that would sit near critical headwaters that feed the Bristol Bay fishery.

These new criticisms appeared in an appropriations bill from the Senate

Restaurants around Washington D.C. will feature wild sockeye salmon from Bristol Bay, Alaska as part of Bristol Bay Salmon Week, which will take place from 16 to 20 September. 

The event, organized by the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association (BBRSDA), will put fillets from the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery front and center on menus at 28 restaurants across the nation’s capital. 

“Bristol Bay

The world’s largest sockeye fishery, Bristol Bay, Alaska, clocked its second-largest harvest ever this season, with a haul of more than 43 million fish. The big catch, combined with a robust base price – most of the fishery’s major processors have posted an initial ex-vessel buying price at USD 1.35 (EUR 1.20) per pound – should make 2019 among the most lucrative years in the fishery’s history. This season’s

Fishing all but wrapped up in Bristol Bay, Alaska this week, capping what could shake out to be the most lucrative season in 126 years of recorded history in the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery. 

When the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) published its final daily run summary of the season on 31 July, the total salmon harvest sat at just over 43 million fish on a run of 56.3 million. Sockeye salmon constituted over 42

Opponents to the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska spoke out Wednesday, 31 July, a day after the EPA decided to reverse Obama-era protections in the region, opening the door for a gold and copper mine slated for development at the headwaters of the world’s biggest sockeye salmon fishery. 

Local tribes, commercial and sport fishermen, biologists, and other activists, who have fought the mine for a decade, recently banded