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Feb 19, 2025 |
nationalfisherman.com | Charlie Ess
Lawyers representing the Cook Inlet drift fleet fired off the latest in a volley of court actions asking judges to implement a federal management plan to optimize the commercial harvest of sockeye salmon swimming through the federal waters in the inlet each summer. The Jan.
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Feb 8, 2025 |
savingseafood.org | Charlie Ess
February 7, 2025 — Last year’s lower-than-average Bristol Bay salmon harvest likely went a long way toward long-term polarization of the drift fleet between fishermen earning the highest and lowest revenues. As a trend, drift fishermen with the highest production in the fleet typically made double the earnings of fishermen with the lowest production.
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Feb 6, 2025 |
nationalfisherman.com | Charlie Ess
Last year’s lower-than-average Bristol Bay salmon harvest likely went a long way toward long-term polarization of the drift fleet between fishermen earning the highest and lowest revenues. As a trend, drift fishermen with the highest production in the fleet typically made double the earnings of fishermen with the lowest production.
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Nov 6, 2024 |
nationalfisherman.com | Charlie Ess
Leonard Leach knew he’d found his calling when he landed a job as a greenhorn on an Alaskan seiner in 1962. The 82-year-old fisherman has been working the waters within the Gulf of Alaska ever since, in a career spanning more than six decades as a longliner, troller, gillnetter, seiner and crabber, and is known as a mentor and leading voice in the industry. Leach’s long involvement in the fishing community has earned him a place this year on the list of National Fisherman Highliners.
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Sep 4, 2024 |
savingseafood.org | Charlie Ess
September 4, 2024 — Even though the final days of the sockeye salmon season in Bristol Bay hadn’t yet been fished, fishermen felt a mood swing reminiscent of last season in terms of what went into their wallets. To some, the prospects of fishing the Bay each season may come down to crunching out the cost of maintaining the commercial fishing lifestyle. “I have a headline for this year’s Bristol Bay season,” texted a fishermanwho was running his boat toward the yard for dry dock storage.
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Kevin Berry
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Kevin Berry primarily covers news in Alaska, United States, including areas around Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula.
Isabelle Ross
Host and Reporter at KDLG (Dillingham, AK)
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Evan Erickson
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Kirsten Dobroth
News Director at KMXT-FM (Kodiak, AK)
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