Seafood Recipe

The National transportation safety board will recommend that the coast guard ask congress permission to inspect our nations fishing fleets. The current recommendations are related to the enquiry into the sinking of Alaska’s Ranger last March. This incident resulted in 5 people losing their lives and 42 people being rescued in treacherous conditions. The vessel [...]

The Secretary of Commence approved a plan that the Marine Conversation Alliance lobbied for, to prohibit commercial fishing in the waters of the Arctic. The area is some 200,000 miles north of the Bering Strait and believed to be rich in cod, pollock and snow crab. It has never been actively fished but due to [...]

The Alaskan pollock industry is the largest commercial fishery in the United States, accounting for 2 billion pounds of catch annually, or a third of all seafood caught (by weight). Careful monitoring of pollock stocks and migration patterns on the part of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) and other conservation and [...]