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Alaska's new salmon season kicked off Friday with a 12-hour commercial driftnet opener in the Copper River District.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported a harvest of 967 Chinook salmon and 39,000 sockeye.
That compares to 1,090 Chinook and 28,128 sockeye in the first opener last year.

The department has set another 12-hour opener for Tuesday in the Coppe...

Eric Deakin is retiring from Coastal Villages Region Fund after six years as executive director and CEO.
Based in Anchorage, CVRF is the largest of Alaska's six community development quota organizations. These companies are major players in the state's commercial fisheries, harvesting fish and crab on behalf of often impoverished Bering Sea villages.
The CVRF board has app...

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Deckboss hears reliably that Alaska's attorney general, as soon as tomorrow, will signal he'll block most or all of the controversial actions the Board of Fisheries took recently on Area M salmon fisheries.
The AG's expected action comes in the ...

The state's top commercial fishing organization, United Fishermen of Alaska, is recruiting a new executive director.
The position carries an estimated starting salary of $90,000 to $100,000 depending on experience, a job description ...