Crew of Alaska-bound fishing vessel worries after company rejects more COVID-19 screening
American Seafoods has been buffeted in the past two weeks by test results from crews of three other vessels unloading frozen fish in Bellingham, Washington.
Factory trawler returns to Seattle after 85 crew members test positive for COVID-19
The FV American Dynasty was scheduled to fish later in summer for pollock in the Bering Sea off Alaska.
As Alaska fishing season set to begin, fearful communities and seafood industry try to prevent spread of coronavirus
These are extraordinary times for Alaska’s seafood industry, which each year delivers more than half of the U.S. harvest from coastal and offshore waters.
With surgeries delayed, patients wait with anxiety — some in pain — as hospitals make way for coronavirus cases
The disruptions represent a huge but largely hidden toll of the pandemic, which has slashed services available to patients and inflicted a major economic blow on hospitals and health care workers.
Coast Guard board to investigate sinking of Scandies Rose crab boat on New Year’s Eve
The National Transportation Safety Board also is investigating the sinking.
Battling the waves to stay alive: A tale of survival from the Scandies Rose
John Lawler, one of two surviving Scandies Rose crew members, details what it took to survive a sinking that left him and Dean Gribble Jr. adrift in 20-foot seas for four hours.
As Alaska permafrost melts, roads sink, bridges tilt and greenhouse gases escape
Alaska’s Arctic landscape is under assault from a warming climate, and it’s happening a lot faster than anticipated.
Why are birds and seals starving in a Bering Sea full of fish?
The tally includes a nearly fivefold increase in ice-seal carcasses spotted on shore, along with strandings of emaciated gray whales.
As Bering Sea ice melts, Alaskans, scientists and Seattle’s fishing fleet witness changes ‘on a massive scale’
Researchers now are uncertain when and to what extent the ice may return, and have scrambled to better understand the consequences of back-to-back years of its loss.
Overloading, heavy ice and an open hatch: Coast Guard details what sank the Seattle-based Destination
The Coast Guard report, issued Sunday, blames the crab boat’s owner and captain for the 2017 disaster that unfolded on winter seas after ice built up on the hull and gear. “The crew had very little time, if any, to react,” investigators wrote.
Shell icebreaker slips out of Portland after authorities move protesters from bridge and waters
Authorities moved protesters from a bridge and from the Willamette River on Thursday after they temporarily prevented a Royal Dutch Shell icebreaker from leaving dry dock and joining an Arctic oil-drilling operation.
Shell icebreaker heads north after police force protesters from Portland bridge
Authorities forced protesters in kayaks from a river Thursday in Portland, Oregon, where the demonstrators were trying to stop a Royal Dutch Shell icebreaker from leaving dry dock and joining an Arctic oil drilling operation.