In an unprecedented response to historically low numbers of Pacific cod, the federal cod fishery in the Gulf of Alaska is closing for the 2020 season. The decision, announced Friday, came as ...

Pacific cod (Loren Holmes / ADN archive) Alaska coastal communities will get a bit of an economic boost in 2021 from increased catches of Pacific cod.

The Pacific cod fishery may have started about ten years earlier than originally thought, at least on a small-scale level, according to a recent peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of ...

Nearly a century later, Alaska's Pacific cod continue to be disparaged. For example, several months ago, I shopped at a Giant Eagle grocery store in Pittsburgh.

Gulf of Alaska cod populations appear to have nose-dived, a collapse fishery scientists believe is linked to warm water temperatures known as “the blob” that peaked in 2015.

In an unprecedented response to historically low numbers of Pacific cod, the federal cod fishery in the Gulf of Alaska is closing for the 2020 season. The decision, announced Friday, came as ...

A small Pacific cod. (Courtesy of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration) Last month, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, which regulates groundfish in Alaska and other ...

Despite those ongoing challenges, Alaskan fishermen know a great deal of strength lies in the Pacific cod fishery, strength that gives me confidence in the future of this important resource.

Barbeaux said the cod decline likely resulted from the blob, a huge influx of warm Pacific Ocean water that stretched — during its 2015 peak — from the Gulf of Alaska to California’s ...

Marine heatwaves alter the nursery function of coastal habitats for juvenile Gulf of Alaska Pacific cod. Scientific Reports , 2024; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-63897-w Cite This Page : ...