Meg Duff, KDLG - Dillingham

Meg Duff, KDLG - Dillingham
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sockeye salmon

Illegal fishing shuts down Bristol Bay’s Egegik fishery

Last weekend’s closure may have marked the first time a regulation allowing state closures was used in Bristol Bay.
salmon

Bristol Bay sees smallest sockeye sizes on record, despite large run

Sockeye salmon returning to Bristol Bay this year were, on average, the smallest the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has ever seen.
fishing boats

The Supreme Court’s ‘Chevron deference’ decision casts a wide net

The decision, which came after a legal battle over who should pay for bycatch monitors on trawl boats, may affect all federally regulated industries.
workers

Bristol Bay floating fish processor back at full capacity after fire

Northline Seafoods CEO Ben Blakey doesn't think this summer's electrical fire aboard the Hannah will have a lasting financial impact.
a man

‘I just wish I had more time’: Friends, family remember fisherman killed in Bristol Bay accident

Colleagues and relatives say 21-year-old Corwin Wheeler was doing what he loved when he was trapped in fishing gear and went overboard Friday.
a fish processor

Fire reduces new Bristol Bay floating fish processor’s capacity

Northline Seafoods says nobody was hurt in Sunday's fire aboard the Hannah, but its processing capacity is down to about a third of normal.