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The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages

The Arctic Sounder - Serving the Northwest Arctic and the North Slope

The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages

The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages

The Arctic Sounder - Serving the Northwest Arctic and the North Slope

A grilling on fish that is taken as bycatch didn’t satisfy the appetites of a bipartisan group of Alaska legislators at a special hearing Nov. 15 by the House Fisheries

Off-loading Alaska halibut. Earl D. Walker/Shutterstock Along with the certainty of death and taxes, fishermen know universally that the council process is a slog. We are often faced with the dual realities that a slow process works to ensure robust stakeholder input as well as sometimes letting fishery oversight slip behind the pace of changing ocean dynamics. Indeed, by the time a management plan is amended, the council and stakeholders typically get right to work on the next one to address t...