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Laine Welch
 
Fish Factor: Dutch Harbor still top fishing port
Dutch Harbor-Unalaska held onto the title of the nation’s top fishing port for the 15th year in a row, with over 700 million pounds of fish and crab crossing the docks there last year, a 36 percent increase from 2010. New Bedford, Massachusetts remained as the priciest port with landings, mostly ...
Sep 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fish Factor: Market unkind to fishermen
Alaska fishermen are feeling the squeeze of lower prices at the same time that their operating costs continue to spiral upwards. For halibut, in a reversal of trend and fortune, prices have dropped by 70 cents a pound in recent weeks. Dock prices usually peak from September until the halibut fish...
Sep 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fish Factor: Salmon markets better than expected
As Alaska’s salmon season winds down, selling the bulk of the harvest gears up for seafood companies that purchased the pack. “This is the season for negotiations, you might say,” said salmon guru Gunnar Knapp, longtime fisheries economist at the University of Alaska/Anchorage. “You never know ...
Sep 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fish Factor: Alaska hopes pinks make up for chum, sockeye
Salmon season is winding down and it’s still a guess if the statewide catch will reach the 132 million fish forecast. Achieving that all comes down to those hard-to-predict pinks, whose catch makes up more than half of the total harvest. “I think it’s going to be close. It all depends on what ha...
Aug 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fish Factor: Grant to help with jobs in Bristol Bay
Jobs are being put on the fast track in Bristol Bay, with a focus on careers that go hand in hand with the region’s culture and economy: commercial fishing and seafood processing. “The fishery is our largest industry; it’s the backbone of the economy here,” said Patty Heyano, Program Development...
Aug 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fish Factor: Big guns come out to defeat coastal measure
Alaska has more coastline than all of the other US states combined, but unlike all those other states, Alaskans have no say in how their coasts are managed or developed. If Outside and foreign corporations have their way, that’s how it will remain. A successful coastal zone management program h...
Aug 13, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fish Factor: Survey reveals Kodiak is healthy fishing community
Kodiak fishermen are a happy lot, but they are also anxious about the future of their industry. Those are some of the early findings of an ongoing survey that focuses on the social and cultural perceptions of the fishing life in Kodiak and how things have changed over two decades. The survey is...
Aug 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rising chum prices prompt search for cheaper bait
Got bait? Fish scientists need 305,000 pounds of semi brite chum salmon for this year’s halibut stock surveys. The bait is staged at more than 1,200 stations between Oregon and the Bering Sea for use by up to 15 survey boats each June through August. “We typically buy from sometimes up to 6-7 pro...
Jul 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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