News, articles, photos, and other information about commercial fishing in North America.
In January, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker determined there are commercial fishery failures for nine salmon and crab fisheries in Alaska, California, and Washington. The Commerce Department found that, in recent years, all nine fisheries experienced sudden and unexpected … Continued
On July 30, 2016, Coast Guard 17th District External Affairs Office announced that the United States Coast Guard (USCG), the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC), and the Fishing Company of Alaska (FCA), which formed a Unified Command to respond … Continued
On July 26, 2016, aircrews from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, along with good Samaritans, rescued 46 people approximately 690 miles west of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Crewmembers were forced to abandon ship after the 220-foot fishing vessel Alaska Juris … Continued
On April 4, 2016, a federal court in New Orleans entered a consent decree resolving civil claims against BP arising from the April 20, 2010 Macondo well blowout and the massive oil spill that followed in the Gulf of Mexico. … Continued
NOAA archaeologists have discovered the battered hulls of two 1800s whaling ships nearly 144 years after they and 31 others sank off the Arctic coast of Alaska in one of the planet’s most unexplored ocean regions. The shipwrecks, and parts … Continued