Larson Bay News Today

Etchikan, Alaska, U.S.A.-based E.C. Phillips & Son has completed its purchase of a processing plant Petersburg formerly owned by Trident Seafoods.

OBI is taking a year off from processing salmon at its Larsen Bay plant but will operate the fleet services side of the facility this summer.

Modernist home in West Vancouver was highest sale ever at $32.8 million

Modernist home in West Vancouver was highest sale ever at $32.8 million

Earlier this month, the 117th Congress formally adjourned, marking the close of a remarkably productive legislative stretch for Alaska. The last Congress was one of the best for our state

Blue-green algae has been confirmed in Wabigoon Lake. The bloom tested positive in the Bonny Bay area and resu...

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

  VANCOUVER -- A man was arrested and charged after reportedly stealing a boat and breaking into a home last week, West Vancouver police say. In a news release Tuesday, the West Vancouver Police Department said officers were called last Friday just after 3:30 p.m. after someone saw a man jump into an empty 17-foot boat at Sewells Marina in Horseshoe Bay and take it towards the open ocean. Local police asked for assistance from the Vancouver Police Departments marine unit. A short time late...

Pacific Halibut Commission increases allowable catch February 5th |   Pacific halibut harvesters got some rare good news last week: increased catches in 2021 along with a longer fishing season. At its annual meeting that ended on Jan. 25, the International Pacific Halibut Commission boosted the coastwide removals for 2021 to 39 million pounds, a 6.53% increase over last year. It includes halibut taken in commercial, sport, subsistence, research, personal use and as bycatch for fisheries o...

Halibut commission boosts 2021 catch and OKs longer fishing season Print article Pacific halibut harvesters got rare good news last week: increased catches in 2021 along with a longer fishing season. At its annual meeting that ended on Jan. 25, the International Pacific Halibut Commission boosted the coastwide removals for 2021 to 39 million pounds, a 6.53% increase over last year. It includes halibut taken in commercial, sport, subsistence, research, personal use and as bycatch for fisheri...