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Redfish in a Deepchill slurry, which the company says will bring the fish temperature from 15-18 degrees Celsius to 2 degrees Celsius in five minutes. Deepchill photo.

Cool It

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Trident Seafoods’ Kraken Stash IPA Beer Battered Wild Alaska Pollock Fillets won the foodservice award at the 2023 Alaska Symphony of Seafoods. Trident Seafoods photo.

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Sockeye salmon nuggets, breakfast sausage land top spots in Alaska Symphony of Seafoods

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Tire in a puddle of water. — A group of West Coast Native American tribes petitioned to have a chemical found in almost all tires banned due to it running into the ocean and killing salmon. U.S. regulators say they will review the use of the rubber preservative 6PPD-quinone.

U.S. regulators to evaluate car-tire chemical deadly to salmon

Carli Stewart

Photo courtesy of Brandon on Unsplash

Tribes seek subsistence priority for salmon

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Sockeye salmon fills the drying racks in the village of Newhalen on Lake Iliamna. Scott Bartlett photo.

Battle flares anew over Alaska subsistence fisheries

Charlie Ess

Photo by Brandon on Unsplash

As Yukon salmon vanish, so does a way of life

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Photo by Zak Bernadsky on Unsplash

Kuskokwim salmon runs see slight improvement

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Chum salmon swimming upriver. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Advocates look to White House for executive action on salmon bycatch

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Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash

Council to take up pollock fleet's salmon bycatch in December

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Despite disappointing prices far below the record-breaking 2022 season, Bristol Bay fishermen landed 38 million fish by the end of July, surpassing the forecast of 37 million fish. BBRSDA photo.

Market Report: Alaska Salmon

Charlie Ess

Chinook salmon harvested in Alaska (1985–2021) as reported annually; total commercial harvest (main panel), commercial harvest for Alaska regions (lower panels), and sport and subsistence harvest. Alaska Salmon Research Task Force graphic.

Alaska Salmon Research Task Force issues progress report, seeks public input

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