The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more ...
Ice Fishing for Giant Sheefish in the Arctic Is a True Winter Adventure
Eight feet of ice, freezing temps, and 40-pound sheefish make for an arctic adventure. Here's what it's like ice fishing for ...
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Fishery managers start a process to tighten salmon bycatch rules in Alaska’s Bering Sea
Managers launched a formal evaluation of new measures to reduce the number of Western Alaska chum salmon caught in pollock ...
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Lawsuit Launched to Challenge Destructive Bottom-Trawl Study in Bering Sea
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Several Alaska Native Tribal Governments ... have voiced strong opposition to the project and any commercial trawl fishing in the region. The Native Village of Savoonga, Native ...
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The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
But one result is clear: The policy has dragged down the economies of many Indigenous villages along the Gulf of Alaska. Places that once called themselves “fishing towns” have been hollowed ...
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The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
Now 76, pictured aboard his boat, the MZ L, he’s the last skipper running a commercial fishing vessel from his home village of Ouzinkie, on an island just north of Kodiak. (Photo by Nathaniel ...