Alaska may profit from popularity of home-meal kits
Kits typically cost $60 to $70 a week for three, two-person meals. Since launching in 2012, it has grown into a $2.2 billion business.
Re-examining safety practices in the wake of this year’s commercial fishing deaths
Flooding and loss of boat stability are the causes of 50 percent of all fishing fatalities. Between 25 percent and 35 percent are from falling overboard, which is easily preventable.
Salmon in Brazil? Pollock in Spain? ASMI broadens reach.
Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute operates eight regional offices worldwide promoting state's seafood with chefs, schools, caterers and consumers.
Fishermen use technology to stay educated, updated
Salmon Habitat Information Program puts information at their fingertips
Fishermen seeing higher salmon prices across the board
Prices are up for red salmon, especially those from Bristol Bay, but commercial fishermen are also buoyed by price increases for chum, pink and king salmon in various fisheries across Alaska.
Robots are likely on their way into Alaska fish-processing plants
As the U.S. seafood industry becomes more reliant on products from aquaculture, equipment makers are designing machines for processing more predictable fish.
Salmon prospects bright among China’s growing middle class
China buys some $800 million worth of Alaska seafood, more than any other nation. A growing middle class may be increasingly interested in healthier, wild-caught salmon.
What a state budget-triggered shutdown will mean to fisheries
Impact could be far reaching, not only affecting this year's harvest but Alaska fishing for several years into the future.
When winds blow salmon into their birth rivers
Yukon elders taught the longtime director of NOAA Fisheries in Juneau how wind influenced the migrating salmon headed upstream.
Trump budget delivers body blows to Alaska fisheries
NOAA takes the biggest hit with a proposed cut of $1.5 billion.
Fisheries managers jittery as budget negotiations drag on
Layoff notices will start going out June 1 if legislators cannot agree on a budget during the third special session.
Anticipated fish report shows Alaska volume up, prices flat
June surveys should determine whether or not there will be a Tanner crab fishery this year; choices expand on seafood delivered to consumers' doorsteps.