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Optimism is the word that best sums up the attitude among most Alaska salmon fishermen after a good season, according to people in the business of buying and selling permits

Southeast Alaskans Respond to Report Posted & Edited By MARY KAUFFMAN - According to British Columbia and Alaskas Bilateral Working Group, the four-year effort between B.C. and Alaska to examine water quality in the Stikine, Taku, and Unuk transboundary watersheds brought together government agencies, Indigenous Nations, industry, and the public to ensure the environmental, cultural, and economic values of these rivers are protected. "This program has been an extraordinary partnership of ma...

Post date:  Wed, 03/03/2021 - 9:18am The crew of the stock assessment vessel Star Wars II hauls in a large halibut during the 2002 fishing season. Catches are up nearly coastwide for 2021 and fishermen are hoping prices will follow. Photo/Courtesy/International Pacific Halibut Commission) The Pacific halibut fishery opened on March 6 and increased catch limits combined with a cautiously optimistic outlook for the near future have fanned interest in buying shares of the popular fish. In Janua...

Alaska fishermen optimistic as Pacific halibut fishery opens Share on Facebook Print article The Pacific halibut fishery opens March 6, and increased catch limits combined with a cautiously optimistic outlook for the near future have fanned interest in buying shares of the popular fish. In January, the International Pacific Halibut Commission boosted total halibut removals for 2021 by 6.5% to 39 million pounds for taken by all users and as bycatch in fisheries of the West Coast, British Col...