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OBI Seafoods is closing its Larsen Bay plant on Kodiak Island for the 2024 salmon season. The plant, built in 1911 by the Alaska Packers Association, is one of the oldest canneries on Kodiak Island. OBI Seafoods photo.

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Alaska's OBI Seafoods shuts down Larsen Bay plant for 2024 salmon season

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Norfolk, VA / USA: September 28, 2014: U. S. Coast Guard Safe Boat Defender Patrol Boat in the Norfolk Port. Photo by ThePhotoFab on Shutterstock

Coast Guard cutter returns to Kodiak after holiday season patrol

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Tennessee musician pens bluegrass ode to lost crabber Scandies Rose

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Commentary: Alaska salmon 'ranches'?

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Tanner crab in Aquarium, Newport, Oregon coast. Photo by steve estvanik on Shutterstock

Kodiak tanner crab season falls short of 2023 landings

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Pacific cod. NOAA photo.

North Pacific ‘heat waves’ speed hatching, increase mortality of juvenile cod

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Russia's fishing fleet modernization continues. A St. Petersburg yard delivered the Mekhanik Maslak—reportedly designed with assistance from Skipteknisk, and outfitted with Seonics deck gear—to the Russian Fishing Company in May 2023. United Shipbuilding

On the Russian front

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Salmon courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Overlap seen between future mining claims, salmon habitat

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Photo by Tobias Tullias on Unsplash

Alaska has 'significant concerns' with federal Cook Inlet management plan

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Alaskan Pollock. Courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

'A' season fleet targeting 1.3M metric tons of pollock

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Photo by Drew Farwell on Unsplash

Proposal for ESA listing of king salmon finds little consensus

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